edit
verb (used with object)
to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
had been editing
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past perfect progressiveof edit.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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Well, I had been editing a social work journal on the campus of Cal State Long Beach from like 2000 to right before “The Goldbergs” started.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
He had been editing it for 18 months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024
Photograph: Gene Blevins/Reuters Roland Michell gave his credentials; part-time research assistant to Professor Blackadder, who had been editing the Complete Works of the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash since 1951.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2010
I had been editing "On Your Way" that day, Fermin being on a holiday and Gresham ill; and I had put the paragraph conspicuously at the top of the column.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
She thought he had been editing a paper.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
