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had been tailoring
  • past perfect progressive of tailor.

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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