dabble
verb (used without object)
to play and splash in or as if in water, especially with the hands.
has been dabbling
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present perfect progressiveof dabble (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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Cook dinner and watch “Friday Night Lights” I am the cook of the family, although Glennon has been dabbling recently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024
Unfortunately, he asks the wrong Avenger for help: Elizbeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff is the one after the power to go multiverse jumping and has been dabbling in some dark arts to make it happen.
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2022
Forest Service has been dabbling with remote-controlled firefighting technologies since the early 2000s.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 29, 2021
Q. Not a laughing matter: My boyfriend of three years has been dabbling in comedy since we started dating.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2020
He has been occasionally, too, probing me about Merl,—you remember the fellow who had the rooms near Knightsbridge,—so that I opine he has been dabbling in loans.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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