profit
noun
Often profits.
had been profiting
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past perfect progressiveof profit.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless, Mr. Wheat saw that others in politics had been profiting quite as much as Cowperwood in other ways and he advised Cowperwood to turn state's evidence.
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
After France had been profiting by the skill of British women for months, Sir Alfred Keogh, Medical Director General, wisely insisted that the War Office yield and place a hospital in the hands of women.
From Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch
Dimly it passed through my mind that she had been profiting by her lessons lately.
From It Happened in Egypt by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
No rumor that Cowperwood or his friends had been profiting or were in any way involved had come to any one present—not as yet.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
