reason
noun
a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc..
have been reasoning
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present perfect progressiveof reason.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 could not be said to have been reasoning, as David was doing in the cabin.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
It would have been reasoning inapplicable to Adela, but from a certain point of view it might have served as a resource.
From Demos by George Gissing
This, you know, is the age of reason, and during the last hundred and fifty years men have been reasoning themselves out of everything that they ought to believe and feel.
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
The thinking, or it may even have been reasoning, involved few clear-cut images of any kind.
From How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer
It is as hard reasoning with them as it would have been reasoning with lo, when she was flying over land and sea, driven by the sting of the never-sleeping gadfly.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
