have been combating
- present perfect progressive of combat.
Example Sentences
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Officials in the US and in Latin America have been combating the problem of screwworms for much of the past six decades, with limited success.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Firefighters have been combating a huge blaze at a Shell chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas, apparently caused by an explosion.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
“AQAP is a threat to our community in Yemen and we Yemenis have been combating terrorism and AQAP.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2020
He seems always to have been combating the sense of himself as an outsider in the world of professional football.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2017
It remains to explain some conversational expressions, at first sight favourable to that doctrine of degrees in assent, which I have been combating.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
