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have been grilling
  • present perfect progressive of grill.

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Barbeques have been started up and street sellers have been grilling Argentine steaks while fireworks go off in the middle of the city.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2022

Earlez Grille — Brothers Cary and Duane Earle have been grilling hot dogs for almost 30 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2015

The committees' investigators have been grilling Poindexter in secret sessions without any of the legislators present, an arrangement the chairmen apparently agreed to in order to prevent leaks.

From Time Magazine Archive

And what more natural, with a long year of college discipline ahead of them, than for boys who have been grilling through hot summer afternoons to brighten their evenings and weekends with mad pranks?

From Time Magazine Archive