Example Sentences

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The Times acquired it in early 2022, and in Knight's telling, it "turbocharged" everything the team had been putting in place.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Community members had been putting out fires due to firefighters being "overwhelmed", Jones said, as well as helping tourists who did not have access to food.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

Everybody had a tricky year emotionally; it was a real roller-coaster in terms of dealing with the fact that something we had been putting everything into for 10 years was coming to an end.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025

“We had been putting such an emphasis on defense,” Rivers said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2024

Since the late 1980s, people had been putting up databases with Internet access.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman