had been intercepting
- past perfect progressive of intercept.
Example Sentences
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The system had an estimated 60,000 users when it shut down abruptly in June 2020, and Europol revealed the following month that law enforcement officials had been intercepting users' communications for months.
From Reuters ● Jun. 27, 2023
The task force had been intercepting his phones for almost a year, and the F.B.I. had been investigating him even longer.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
The soldier insisted that his unit had been intercepting discussions by Romanian and Polish soldiers, not Ukrainians, on their radios.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
All summer, U.S. intelligence agencies had been intercepting rumors from Pakistani officials about a possible coup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2016
The Swifts had discovered that their enemy had been intercepting Tom's messages, thereby learning the frequency to which the Swifts' receiver was tuned.
From Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
