conjure
verb (used with object)
to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.
have been conjuring
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present perfect progressiveof conjure.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 private money managers have been conjuring up new debt instruments faster than thinly stretched state insurance commissioners can rein them in, and the regulatory process sometimes resembles a game of whac-a-mole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
I have been conjuring with his protean output for nearly 50 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2018
Since well before Albert Einstein, physicists have been conjuring up concepts that defy common sense.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is a dream I have been conjuring up."
From Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various
The office that I have been conjuring up in my mind is reached at last, and found to be a neat room provided with forms and a pulpit like desk.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
