deploy
verb (used with object)
to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
had been deploying
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past perfect progressiveof deploy.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps most worrisome to investors was his suggestion that another tool it had been deploying to remove stimulus from the economy — the shrinking of its giant portfolio of bonds — would continue on “autopilot.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2019
A government source said the chancellor had been deploying quiet diplomacy in contacting his US counterpart amid claims that some US politicians were trying to undermine London's position as a financial centre.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 10, 2012
