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has been laughing
  • present perfect progressive of laugh (3rd person singular).

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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

She has been laughing like she used to laugh.

From Gladys, the Reaper by Beale, Anne

The story is this:—all Paris, except yourself, has been laughing at it for a week past.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various