Example Sentences

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Shane and his colleagues had been seeing signs of this incoming attack for months.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

He said that they were “very constructive on the biopharma side,” where they had been seeing “the bulk of innovation and mispricing” in the stock market.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

His date, whom he had been seeing for a couple of months, showed up in black Lululemon leggings, an oversize gray sweatshirt and dirty Nike Air Forces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

But for Benson and others at the church it underscored the crisis they had been seeing grow around them.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

She was a year younger than Reggie and a good friend of Briana Bishop, the woman who Reggie had been seeing at the time of the wreck.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel