recite
verb (used with object)
to repeat the words of, as from memory, especially in a formal manner.
have been reciting
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present perfect progressiveof recite.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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Officials throughout California have been reciting a similar refrain for months and have been especially earnest as numbers of new coronavirus infections have rocketed to unprecedented heights throughout much of the nation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2020
To just say that bigotry and bullying have no place in American society - a golden rule that schools have been reciting for years - doesn’t make intolerance vanish.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
To just say that bigotry and bullying have no place in American society — a golden rule that schools have been reciting for years — doesn’t make intolerance vanish.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2017
He could well have been reciting a weather report, not breaking his country’s biggest news story since 1959.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2015
Even then he caught only a fragment, here and there, and for the rest—so far as Ramsey was concerned—she might as well have been reciting the Swedish alphabet.
From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington
