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has been laughing

  • present perfect progressive
    of laugh (3rd person singular).
    laugh
    verb (used without object)
    to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.

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The Minecraft Movie's director says he has been "laughing my brains out" at the trend for audience members shouting out, jumping up and down, and in some cases throwing popcorn in the air during screenings.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

Turns out it’s been Jon’s story all along and George RR Martin has been laughing because nobody saw it in the title of the books.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2019

Cruz has been laughing this all off in public.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2016

C——, the most excellent, the most Pantisocratic of aristocrats, has been laughing at me.

From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull

Evading and then relaxing and then stipulating and then hearing that there is a protection is not the whole way to have it said that there has been laughing.

From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein