disseminate
verb (used with object)
had been disseminating
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past perfect progressiveof disseminate.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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Roberts recalls the hours spent at the 2018 Pride March, being chained to Weston, who had been disseminating fliers about H.I.V. criminalization.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Sherman abolished Operation 23, which had been disseminating anonymous pro-Navy propaganda during the months of political feuding, but took no punitive action against its directors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nature of the heresy is not described, but it was probably that of the Brethren of the Free Spirit which Marguerite la Porete had been disseminating throughout that region.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
