square
noun
a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
have been squaring
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present perfect progressiveof square.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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India and Pakistan have been squaring up to each other too, and China is jostling for dominance.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
Two armies may have been squaring off in what looked like a siege, as Pod helpfully pointed out, but the real action was in the tents.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2016
Rodriguez’s saga — he and his legal team have been squaring off against the organization while he continues to play third base every day — has sunk the Yankees’ day-to-day existence into near absurdity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2013
—Geoffrey A. Fowler Them's Fightin' Words European Pressphoto Agency Amy Williams of Great Britain British and Canadian journalists have been squaring off in Vancouver, and not in a friendly, Olympic-spirit kind of way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2010
Anybody who impeached Newton on existing evidence might as well have been squaring the circle, for any attention he would have got.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
