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has been cheating
  • present perfect progressive of cheat (3rd person singular).

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"When you get that kind of disparity in the marks, it's clear the student has been cheating," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

In a succession of brutal revelations just as she is questioning her happiness, Ann learns she is pregnant, that her boyfriend has been cheating on her and that her beloved grandmother has died.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2023

Dear Amy: My husband of 34 years has been cheating on me for years.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

For years, Disney has been cheating the writers and artists of tie-in products — novelizations and graphic novels based on some of its most important franchises — of the royalties they’re due for their works.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

The overseer whom he has had for eleven years has been cheating him right and left, and the other servants are hand in glove with him.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various