combine
verb (used with object)
to bring into or join in a close union or whole; unite.
have been combining
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present perfect progressiveof combine.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 the key to the movement’s success may have been combining that appealing message with the organizing experience of more radical feminist groups.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
A number of factors have been combining to ease energy prices in recent weeks.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
She said in other fields, women have been combining motherhood and paid work for decades, but it has only recently become more manageable thanks to paid parental leave.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2018
Another treatment from Johnson & Johnson that some doctors have been combining with Sovaldi as other new medicines advance toward approval, costs about $66,000.
From Reuters ● Apr. 10, 2014
All over Europe the governments, the aristocracies, and the people have been combining to discover, gain, and guard every monument of what their dead countrymen had done or been.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
