buy
verb (used with object)
to acquire the possession of, or the right to, by paying or promising to pay an equivalent, especially in money; purchase.
have been buying
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present perfect progressiveof buy.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 these periods of risk-off have been buying opportunities in the past, and we expect this to be the case again,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Min Dong-geon, a 33-year-old office worker in Seoul, is part of a wave of South Korean individual investors who have been buying up SK Hynix and Samsung this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But investors may have been buying the dip in recent days.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
The UK decided against running a widespread catch-up campaign to vaccinate teenagers, but some parents have been buying the jab privately.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Let Yarrow folk frae Selkirk Town, Who have been buying, selling, Go back to Yarrow, 'tis their own; Each maiden to her dwelling!
From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull
