Example Sentences

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It had been investing money internationally and now is investing more locally.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Google and Microsoft, Amazon’s competitors in the cloud-computing and enterprise software businesses, had been investing billions in large language model development for years—Google in its own models, and Microsoft through its partnership with OpenAI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Odood, a real estate agent from California who had been investing in mining in Mexico for a few years, entered the picture in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

Tencent told Reuters the company had been investing abroad for a long time - "long before any new regulations" in China.

From Reuters • Oct. 1, 2022

She had been investing in Government paper, and it had dropped three points.

From The Pool in the Desert by Duncan, Sara Jeannette