dismiss
verb (used with object)
to direct (an assembly of persons) to disperse or go.
have been dismissing
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present perfect progressiveof dismiss.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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Eikenbary said since the school’s policy was instituted, students have been dismissing ideas for stories, thinking even a particular topic wouldn’t make it through a review, no matter how they wrote the article.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 8, 2021
But prosecutors said they have been dismissing the officer’s pending cases.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2020
Marybeth Gasman, a University of Pennsylvania professor of education and a leading expert on H.B.C.U.s, said that critics have been dismissing the schools since she was in graduate school, more than twenty-five years ago.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2018
Privately Downing Street officials have been dismissing the claims contained in the peer's biography of David Cameron as "ridiculous" and "nonsense".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2015
It made her feel sick to think she might have been dismissing James, a new friend she wanted to impress, the same way she’d felt her brother had been dismissing her.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
