recognize
verb (used with object)
to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc..
had been recognizing
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past perfect progressiveof recognize.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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I knew that ministers had been recognizing such a distinction, but to find it so freely acknowledged by folks in the pew was new, and surely significant.
From Quiet Talks on Power by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
More and more Mr. Truax had been recognizing Una as an intelligence, and often he teased her regarding her admiration for Mr. Fein’s efficiency.
From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis
