invent
verb (used with object)
to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance.
has been inventing
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present perfect progressiveof invent (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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Since it closed last March because of the pandemic, the club’s co-owner, Dani Zoldan, has been inventing ways to keep comics performing in front of live audiences, instead of in stilted Zoom shows.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
“I don’t know if the parisienne exists, but what I do know is that a stimulating, engaged, and diverse landscape has been inventing itself in the capital over the past decade,” Pfeiffer observes.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2019
But he has been inventing carnival songs ever since he came to Rio from the farm ten years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author of the new feature is Ray Gross, 38, a dark, dome-browed man who worked five years for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. and who has been inventing things for 18 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some idle slander somebody has been inventing, I suppose.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne
