had been overwriting

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of overwrite.
  overwrite

  verb (used with object)

  to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style.

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