tailor
noun
a person whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes, especially suits, coats, and other outer garments.
had been tailoring
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past perfect progressiveof tailor.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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Prosecutor Ian Wright said Stringer had been "tailoring his evidence" to fit with what the investigation had uncovered and told him: "You are making it up as you go along."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
U.S. officials reasoned that Menshikov had been tailoring his reports on the U.S. so as to fit Kremlin conceptions, and that he was trying to justify his misreporting during the Khrushchev visit.
From Time Magazine Archive
