congratulate
verb (used with object)
to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion.
has been congratulating
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present perfect progressiveof congratulate (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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Photograph: David Karp/AP This week the City has been congratulating itself on 20 years of UK corporate governance codes.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 12, 2012
My paper has been congratulating me, you know, sir, in a wholesale fashion, and I think-I feel sure-that they have been exploiting my name all over the country as the Heroic Rescuer.
From Active Service by Stephen Crane
I hear, too, that the Commandant of the Citadel has been congratulating the Colonel on the despatch with which he defeated the invaders at Temiscouata.
From In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown
Lord Illingworth, every one has been congratulating me, Lady Hunstanton and Lady Caroline, and . . . every one.
From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
