mine
pronoun
a form of the possessive case of I used as a predicate adjective.
have been mining
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present perfect progressiveof mine.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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Investors have been mining corporate earnings for clues as to how companies are faring as the economy moves past the pandemic.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
State-owned Russian companies have been mining bauxite in Guinea, cutting deals to extract diamonds from Angola and winning concessions to produce off-shore gas in Mozambique.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2019
People have been mining the sun in such a way that it’s cooling off, and some of the outer worlds are already frozen dead.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2019
But researchers who want to text-mine preprints aren’t always sure whether they can legally do this on restrictively licensed manuscripts, or whether they can redistribute the corpus of papers that they have been mining.
From Nature ● Jun. 15, 2017
The monks at Tynemouth are known to have been mining coal on the Manor of Tynemouth in 1269, and shipping it to a distance.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
