signal
noun
anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like, such as a light, a gesture, an act, etc.: a signal to leave.
have been signalling
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present perfect progressiveof signal.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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Markets have priced half-point interest rate rises for the Fed's meetings this month and next, in line with what policymakers have been signalling, but the outlook beyond that is murky.
From Reuters ● Jun. 1, 2022
But what if, as the early nationwide protests have been signalling, this consent were to be angrily withheld?
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 31, 2017
Markets have been signalling in recent weeks that they increasingly think Greece will default on its debt, by forcing up its cost of borrowing to unsustainable levels.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2011
Kay dear, two Prussians in Swiss mountain dress have been signalling across the knees of Thusis that our bodies have not been discovered in the ravine.
From In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Gage had already arrested men supposed to have been signalling from steeples.
From The Siege of Boston by Allen French
