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have been printing
  • present perfect progressive of print.

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And unions have been printing and distributing signs, organizing pickets and mega-rallies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

I like to think the labor of the writers involved is worth something, but the biggest cost to getting a publication out there in the 1800s would have been printing it.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2021

Written in Hausa, these romantic novels are the work of mostly female authors, who have been printing their own works in Kano since Nigeria’s publishing industry fell apart in the 1980s.

From Economist • Oct. 6, 2016

Thus the Philadelphia papers have been printing both attacks on and defenses of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, but defenders usually have the last word.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since I began my hermit's life here, I have been printing; and so long as I remain here, I shall keep on printing.

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth