add
verb (used with object)
to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance.
have been adding
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present perfect progressiveof add.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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He added that big tariff refunds have been adding to the government’s red ink, but “we won’t have to do that again.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Etra said fund flow data, however, shows U.S. investors have been adding a lot more international equities than U.S. equities since Liberation Day.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
Those portfolios have been adding stocks more or less since spring when markets calmed after the tariff tantrum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Its workers have been adding hydrogen peroxide and iron to the liquid waste to reduce the benzene concentrations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Causes have been adding to causes, and effects accumulating on effects, from that time to this.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
