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have been receiving

  • present perfect progressive of receive.

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Residents have been receiving troubling calls from people pretending to be their grandchildren, swindling them out of thousands of dollars.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

You have been living in a lot of uncertainty, and now you have more uncertainty, along with millions of other retirees and people who have been receiving disability benefits until their full retirement age.

From MarketWatch Mar. 9, 2026

"We have been receiving coverage cancellations from certain insurers since yesterday morning," Gilles Legue, the head maritime insurer in France for the broker Marsh, told AFP.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

Driving the falloff is concerns about competition to U.S. wheat coming from South America, where Argentina and Brazil both have been receiving good rains to support their crops.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

What you have been doing is feeding him precisely the kind of story that he would have been receiving in his native land.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson