bide
verb (used with object)
to endure; bear.
has been biding
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present perfect progressiveof bide (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Known as Brood X, this massive swarm has been biding its time underground for the last 17 years.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2021
Shaun Hergatt, an Australian transplant who earned a Michelin star for Juni before it closed in 2016, has been biding his time managing the restaurant for residents of a Park Avenue condominium tower.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
How much anger has been biding its time and biting its tongue, wary of being pathologized as hysteria or dismissed as paranoia?
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Board of Agriculture has been biding its time.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
