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has been coming
  • present perfect progressive of come (3rd person singular).

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Raza, who has been coming to the kitchen for decades, describes it best.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

The 35-year-old Oshkosh native has been coming since he was a kid, but lets others do the spearing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Hachimura, who has been coming off the bench since he returned from a calf injury two weeks ago, hit nine of 11 shots from the field, including four threes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

But the good news is that promising new research on how to treat dementia has been coming on multiple fronts lately.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 1, 2025

Daisy Soros, wife of the harbor designer Paul Soros and sister-in-law of the financier George Soros, has been coming to Nantucket since the 1960s, an era when few women, new money or old, dressed up.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times