rank
noun
a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
has been ranking
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present perfect progressiveof rank (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 2012, the World Happiness Report has been ranking countries according to their level of happiness.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 2, 2023
Cornelius Roemer, a computational biologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, has been ranking the new omicron sublineages by how many mutations they have in the receptor binding domain.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
According to Transparency International, which has been ranking countries on its 1-100 scale for 25 years, the United States is not very corrupt at all.
From Fox News ● Sep. 20, 2019
He's taken the No. 1 spot 10 times in the 20 years Forbes has been ranking the world's richest authors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
Known as one of the party’s pro-business leaders on economic policy, he has been ranking Democrat since 2017 on the powerful Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws and oversees trade.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2018
