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Gerry Liston, one of GLAN's lawyers, said: "Portugal stood up on behalf of all respondent states and claimed what the applicants had been describing was just a figment of their imagination and that's gaslighting."

From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2023

Ghani told the BBC that Cameron had been describing “the legacy of the past” in Afghanistan.

From Washington Times • May 12, 2016

Billy Reed had been describing what it was to run a department with so little money it relied on hand-me-down patrol cars still bearing the markings of other forces.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2015

On the phone, the man asked where he could find the mattress Shaun had been describing.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2015

A legend in his own time, Americans had been describing Washington as “the Father of the Country” since 1776—which is to say, before there was even a country.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis