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have been scarring

  • present perfect progressive
    of scar.
    scar
    noun
    a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.

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Learning of this, Mr. Kobach thought of his four daughters and commented, “If they had seen that, it would have been scarring, and I don’t know how I could have gotten over that.”

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“If they had seen that, it would have been scarring, and I don’t know how I could have gotten over that,” he says.

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