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has been chiseling
  • present perfect progressive of chisel (3rd person singular).

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To the right, down the river is the gorge which Niagara has been chiseling and scouring for unnumbered centuries; this chasm extends almost due north for a distance of seven miles to Lewiston.

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler