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had been feeling

  • past perfect progressive
    of feel.
    feel
    verb (used with object)
    to perceive or examine by touch.

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Better, certainly, than he had been feeling coming home to prepare for and play in the World Cup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” put a name to what people had been feeling: tech companies extracting value from data about our lives and reshaping our behavior for profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Kihara said that he had been "feeling really down" and blamed himself for the slip-up, conceding: "We did not think we would win."

From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026

“I think I’m just exhausted in every avenue of my life and in recent months had been feeling a little bit of a shift in the way you talk to me,” Swift said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

For the last few weeks, she had been feeling as though Guy was lost to her each time he reached this point, twelve feet away from the balloon.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat