stockpile
noun
a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
has been stockpiling
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present perfect progressiveof stockpile (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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China has been stockpiling oil and rolling out wind and solar power to improve its energy security.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Russia, an important global supplier, has been stockpiling for domestic use.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2023
Elsewhere, Samantha Broad, who runs Lighthouse Toys, an online toy seller based near Cambridge, says she has been stockpiling toys for this Christmas since January.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2022
Boeing, which has been stockpiling the metal in recent months, gets about a third of its titanium from Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
It’s still unclear what, exactly, that trade deal would entail or how China would approach North Korea, which has been stockpiling and testing nuclear missiles.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2017
