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has been commissioning
  • present perfect progressive of commission (3rd person singular).

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Amazon Music has been commissioning new Christmas songs for a couple of years now, adding them to their festive playlists and staging sneak attacks on the top 40.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2021

Amazon Music has been commissioning new Christmas songs for a couple of years now, adding them to their festive playlists and staging sneak attacks on Top 40.

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2021

Imani has been commissioning new work for 12 years, with a focus on composers of color and, more recently, female composers of color.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2019

Think Chateau Mouton-Rothschild, which has been commissioning a different artist each year since 1945.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 9, 2012

Though usually unavailable in comics shops, since its inception in 1993, the cable-network affiliated monthly has been commissioning many of alternative comix' most interesting artists to fill its back pages.

From Time Magazine Archive