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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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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

"Bruised but motivated," was how one of Volodymyr Zelensky's entourage described how they had been feeling, as a small group of journalists crammed into what felt like an even smaller room at Stansted Airport.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025

All day long, she realized, she had been feeling strange, and seeing strangely, as though everything was already long in the past, made more vivid by posthumous ironies she could not quite grasp.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan