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had been excelling
  • past perfect progressive of excel.

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Early in the second half against Leicester, Naby Keïta was forced off with a thigh injury and James Milner, who had been excelling at right-back, was moved into midfield.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020

I inquired as to how the arch-humourist had been excelling himself lately.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 by Various