enact
verb (used with object)
to make into an act or statute.
had been enacting
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past perfect progressiveof enact.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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Merrell had been enacting dreams for several years before he realized it might be a sign of a bigger problem.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 24, 2023
"China had been enacting policies as if COVID-19 could be eliminated or eradicated," Gandhi said.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2023
Some essential performance he had been enacting for his whole life was melting away.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
Their names were Julie Harris and Christopher Plummer, and they had been enacting the last moments of a play called “A Doll’s House.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020
Part of this crowd signed a petition tending to ask the forfeiture of the throne by Louis XVI., then lately reconducted from Varennes, and on whose fate the Constituent Assembly had been enacting regulations.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
