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have been selecting

  • present perfect progressive of select.

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State officials have been selecting projects through a rigorous process, and some funds have yet to be allocated.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2025

The friends have been selecting photographs of old Tiger Bay to be displayed at National Museum Cardiff.

From BBC May 24, 2025

So for that same seven decades, plant breeders have been selecting seeds from the uniformly green tomatoes, crossing them with other uniformly green ones and producing an uber-race of perfect visual specimens.

From Time Jul. 2, 2012

The men have been selecting sweethearts instead; thus I must wait here tomorrow, that being the "Soog" or market day, when I shall purchase my camels and milch goats.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Here lay a rusty, hiltless sabre, there a sword with no belt; they must have been selecting weapons from this rubbish, and have ransacked even the old armouries.

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall