goad
noun
a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
has been goading
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present perfect progressiveof goad (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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Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been goading Albany to soak the rich, responded to the proposals: “I’m grateful.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
At times it is as if he has been goading Roman Abramovich, a notoriously trigger-happy owner.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2018
Why, Agnes, that is what the governor has been goading me to do.
From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by James Montgomery Flagg
I know one of the brotherhood, at least, whose conscience has been goading him these five years, and yet he perseveres.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
All these years since first we met at Rijnburg he has been goading and spurring me on to give my deepest thought to the world.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
