do
verb (used with object)
to perform (an act, duty, role, etc.).
have been doing
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present perfect progressiveof do.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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“They have been doing it for so long that they have a shorthand, if you don’t get your words out fast enough, they’ve sped past onto a million other ideas,”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
And they have been doing this without publicly declaring anything.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Some have been doing the trade by buying the strongest investments in a sector while shorting the weakest; others lean in to rising markets or asset classes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
What has been happening is that the big-cap artificial intelligence-related stocks have been doing well on a lot of volume, which has helped the cumulative volume figures, even though overall breadth hasn’t been great.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ever since then, Prescriptiv- ists and Descriptivists have been doing battle over whether writers should care about correctness.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
