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had been sharing
  • past perfect progressive of share.

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She had been sharing a cabin with her husband who previously died on board on 11 April, but is not a confirmed case of hantavirus.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Anthropic’s probe came after Bloomberg News reported that a small number of people had been sharing access to the model.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Ms. al-Kurd, 37, speaking by telephone, said she, her sister, brother-in-law, and four nieces and nephews abandoned the tent they had been sharing “without taking anything with us,” and headed to Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024

Unable to speak or stand, he went back to the trailer he had been sharing with his uncle’s family.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023

Among them were Alvarez and Serber, who had been sharing a tent on Tinian for two months, preparing for their assignment tending gauges to be dropped by parachute with the bomb itself.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik