- present perfect progressive of grope (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The business world has been groping towards inward-bound courses for years.
From Economist • Oct. 2, 2014
Ever since Syria annulled its ill-starred union with Egypt last year, it has been groping for the right groove.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With the air of a man who has been groping for a word and hears it unexpectedly from a passerby, the U.S. echoed Willkie in the press, in Congress, on the street.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Jackson, who has been groping for a way to elbow into the campaign, obtained a grievance that he can use to browbeat Clinton for concessions.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is no living man who has been groping in the darkness but may know the way.
From The Way to God and How to Find It by Moody, Dwight Lyman