promote
verb (used with object)
to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further.
have been promoting
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present perfect progressiveof promote.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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She and compatriots have been promoting progressive candidates for school board elections throughout Texas.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
They have been promoting a charity drive called The Game Gives Back for the Boys and Girls Club in Ohio and Michigan and challenging each school’s supporters to compete with donations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
In Colombia, health officials have been promoting verbal autopsy as a means of shoring up death registration in rural regions like Putumayo.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
The governments of Germany, France and other European countries have been promoting similar campaigns to save energy, but the UK has been slow on the up-take.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022
Burr has a certain prestige in New England on account of his father and Jonathan Edwards, and his agents have been promoting discussion of this ancestry for some time past.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
