Example Sentences

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The savviest producers have been recognizing, however belatedly, that playwrights today aren’t writing for conventional Broadway audiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2019

In recent years critics have been recognizing Ishtar’s terrible reputation as unearned and Elaine May’s subsequent relegation to Hollywood jail as unjust.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2019

But in recent decades more liberal Jewish denominations have been recognizing biological fathers as well.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2013

Still, governments around the world have been recognizing the threat to cargo.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2010

Fourteen countries in all, as widely diverse as Australia and Venezuela, honor the Triple Crown tradition and several countries have been recognizing its achievement for well over a century.

From Newsweek • Apr. 26, 2010