proclaim
verb (used with object)
to announce or declare in an official or formal manner.
have been proclaiming
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present perfect progressiveof proclaim.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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“People have been proclaiming for a year and half that the sky is falling, and the sky isn’t falling yet.”
From Reuters ● Dec. 11, 2019
Granted, users have been proclaiming their frustrations with Twitter ever since the ultra-terse social-media site caught fire nearly a decade ago.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2017
Its officials have been proclaiming for months that the time was nigh.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2015
Almost since the grapes were harvested, growers and shippers in Bordeaux have been proclaiming 1982 as a truly great vintage.
From Time Magazine Archive
What is the growing tendency where men think themselves strong enough to do without religious beliefs, when they have been proclaiming that the suppression of Religion will be the exaltation of a purer Morality?
From Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson McAdam Muir
