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

She had been reporting to Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2024

He had been reporting elsewhere when the blast happened.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023

For decades the press had been reporting that cell culture was going to save the world from disease and make man immortal, but by 1951 the general public had stopped buying it.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot