mention
verb (used with object)
to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of.
have been mentioning
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present perfect progressiveof mention.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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The parallel a lot of people have been mentioning is Barry Goldwater in 1964.
From Slate ● May 17, 2016
All summer, users of Facebook who like an official NFL team page have been mentioning their teams in status updates, and the tallies are in.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2015
But, Ellen, in all these very things I have been mentioning Jesus Christ has shown that He deserves it far more.
From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
A curious detail is that the various pieces we have been mentioning were sometimes, in representation, combined after the fashion of a regular tetralogy.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
To produce therefore a perfect grandeur in such things as we have been mentioning, there should be a perfect simplicity, an absolute uniformity in disposition, shape, and coloring.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
