Example Sentences

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For months, online several authors had been noticing strange activity on Goodreads.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2023

Forest Service employees had been noticing all summer that the bears were getting increasingly used to human food, he said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

Leaving the meeting, Platt said she had been noticing the Republican candidates making appearances in recent weeks but already had her mind made up to vote for Michon.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022

Carney and Cuddy had been noticing the same kinds of body language in their female students, who performed well on written materials but lost points, compared with their male counterparts, on class participation.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2017

Since the start of the decade, researchers had been noticing two new things about all cultured cells.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot