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The gas industry had been mobilizing to rebut the concerns, calling on experts at firms like Gradient.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

And even then, the war wasn't won until about 500,000 ground troops, who had been mobilizing for months, pushed the Iraqi army back across the border.

From Slate • May 19, 2010

She was already mobilizing, and in a more or less complete form all Europe had been mobilizing for at least a week.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

On July 30 England was understood to have promised her support to Russia, and the Czar acknowledged that Russia had been mobilizing for the past five days.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various