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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 Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

She thought he had been editing a paper.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James