- present perfect progressive of vacuum (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In fact, companies are having a hard time commercializing anything more complex than a Roomba — which has been vacuuming houses for 20 years.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2021
As Mario’s slightly less famous brother, adventure sidekick, and plumbing business subcontractor, Luigi has been vacuuming up ghosts, and looking scared doing it, since the original Luigi’s Mansion first appeared on Nintendo’s GameCube in 2001.
From Slate
Lacking the three to five years for the soft surface to shake down, the committee has been vacuuming up excess granules.
From Time Magazine Archive
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