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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Affluent Parisians, two hours away by high-speed rail, have been buying vacation and retirement homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Just consider what the country’s top law-enforcement agencies have been buying with their new loot.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
“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
Many of us have been buying the same supermarket staples every week for years.
From BBC ● May 24, 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 Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
