Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Fans also have been crowing to see mobile backup quarterback Garrett Greene, who’s had one carry in a year.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
All day people have been crowing about the impressive scale of the painting and how daunting it must be to hang, but in reality it has been a breeze for her team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2015
And they would have been crowing about how they were going to create the biggest, all-new, best-everything fleet in the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Be's own mother and father have identified him as the man that the Communists have been crowing about, and Be has revisited his native village.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have been crowing and flapping our wings over the medal and trimmings.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Huxley, Leonard
