supply
verb (used with object)
to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite.
has been supplying
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present perfect progressiveof supply (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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But Corning has been supplying that glass since the first iPhone appeared in 2007.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Pyongyang has been supplying soldiers to Russia's campaign.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
The CIA has been supplying some Kurdish militias with small arms.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
This has become a science for Jeremie Pavelski, a farmer whose family has been supplying potatoes to Lay’s for more than 70 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
These Swedes were to be sent to Minnesota, and her records show that she has been supplying the Crib, in New Orleans, and what's left of the Barbary Coast in Chicago.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale
