report
noun
an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc..
had been reporting
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past perfect progressiveof report.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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In March, it purchased Facebook ads attacking a local news outlet in South Dakota, which had been reporting on Noem’s use of government credit cards.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2025
I was on Columbia’s campus on the night Hamilton Hall was raided by police and had been reporting on the protests since the Gaza Solidarity Encampment there began.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2024
He had been reporting elsewhere when the blast happened.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2023
Led by her father’s hand-picked successor, Philippe Dauman, the studio had been reporting one disappointing quarter after another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Tom Wicker and William Kunstler had been reporting on the awful prison conditions at the big New York state pen.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
