endure
verb (used with object)
to hold out against; sustain without impairment or yielding; undergo.
has been enduring
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present perfect progressiveof endure (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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Every moment he’s at a game or practice, it serves as a positive distraction from thinking about the fight his brother, Matt, the athletic director at St. Francis, has been enduring.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
This is all while much of southern Europe has been enduring dangerous, back-to-back heatwaves that have seen temperatures top 40C and large wildfires.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023
Strafed by powerful storms and superheated by a dome of hot air, Texas has been enduring a dangerous early heat wave this week that has broken temperature records and strained the state’s independent power grid.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Australia has been enduring extreme weather events that some experts attribute to climate change.
From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2022
Since August 1914 the finest humanity of our race has been enduring Promethean agonies.
From A Book of Myths by Helen Stratton
