support
verb (used with object)
to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
had been supporting
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past perfect progressiveof support.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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For now, the geopolitical risk premium, which had been supporting oil prices, appears to have tapered off.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
In 2022, the charity said it had "implemented a wide array of organisational and safeguarding enhancements" to ensure the safety of children it had been supporting "directly and indirectly" in The Gambia.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Pall, who was just 22 years of age at the time, said he felt pressured into complying because the older model had been supporting him financially and he felt indebted.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2023
Kandula was set to graduate this December with a master’s in information systems from the Seattle campus of Northeastern University and had been supporting her single mother living in India.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
By the time he turned fourteen in 1941, he had been supporting his mother and brother with his daily labor for two years.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
