screen
noun
a movable or fixed device, usually consisting of a covered frame, that provides shelter, serves as a partition, etc.
have been screening
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present perfect progressiveof screen.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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Security services have been screening one million people involved in the Games, including athletes, residents living close to the Olympic venues, medical staff and volunteers.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2024
Both "The Revenant" and "Anomalisa" have been screening around town the past couple of weeks and academy members received their DVD screener for "The Revenant" Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2015
“Fertile people have been screening for beauty and intelligence for years and years,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2015
“We had decades of harsh sentencing,” said Marjorie J. Peerce, a partner at Ballard Spahr in New York, whose lawyers have been screening clemency applications.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2015
French public-health workers have been screening the populace intensively for HCV, and the French government estimates that it has identified 60% of the country's infected citizens, Pawlotsky says.
From Nature ● Jun. 13, 2011
