merge
verb (used with object)
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
have been merging
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present perfect progressiveof merge.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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One reason for higher surgery and other prices: Many cities and communities are now dominated by a single hospital system, partly because hospitals have been merging in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Television and film have been merging for years, but lines of demarcation remain, with the Oscars as one.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
The aerospace industry is still “vitally important” to El Segundo, City Manager Greg Carpenter said, but companies there have been merging and contracting since the end of the Cold War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
In recent generations the few remaining civilisations have been merging into a single global community.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016
Then rivulets of blessing in some of our individual lives have been merging in a larger stream.
From The Calvary Road by Roy Hession
