digest
verb (used with object)
to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
have been digesting
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present perfect progressiveof digest.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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Investors on Monday may have been digesting Bloomberg’s report from Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission probe into the company was “still active and ongoing.”
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
Carmakers amassed chips at the height of the pandemic and have been digesting those supplies in recent years, weighing on demand for new orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Automakers and producers of industrial machinery have been digesting chip inventories they built at the height of the pandemic, weighing on new orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Candidates have been digesting briefing books and consuming hours of old debate footage.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2019
You may make yourself sick if you go on eating such meals as you have been digesting in camp.
From How to Camp Out by John Mead Gould
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