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have been groping
  • present perfect progressive of grope.

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But during this century, philosophy and theology have been groping toward a new and nonsubservient dialogue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just what would be necessary or appropriate no one knew, and Commissioner Landis and his researchers have been groping diligently ever since.

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Bless you, Nancy, for stating so eloquently what we have been groping to say.

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Ycu said a lot of things I have been groping to put into words for some time.

From Time Magazine Archive

We can look deeper into things than any generation before us, and the deeper we look, the more we become aware of the outer darkness in which we have been groping.

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson