preserve
verb (used with object)
to keep alive or in existence; make lasting.
have been preserving
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present perfect progressiveof preserve.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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For more than 40 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and its nearly 200 member states have been preserving, protecting and promoting the most valuable heritage places in the world.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2018
Documentaries have been preserving the music through a historical lens, but it’s also being celebrated — and reimagined — through an artistic one.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017
This is important because it means that for millions of years, the var genes have been preserving the genetic variety produced by their snip-a-thon, rather than just chopping themselves up indiscriminately.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 27, 2015
He speculated that the administration may have been preserving its own interests.
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2012
I have been preserving carefully some of the communications for future use, and if you will permit me I shall read an extract from a late contribution of his to a newspaper printed in Ontario.
From The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
