Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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It's not necessarily a groundbreaking dish — after all, midwestern moms have been stirring pickles into creamy pasta and serving it for picnics and football games for ages.
From Salon ● May 30, 2022
In truth, two of Buehler’s opponents, both to his right, have been stirring up trouble for the GOP front-runner.
From Washington Times ● May 2, 2018
It is not just in Russia that Russians have been stirring to the possibilities of politics in their home country.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2012
They are unlikely to be as great an influence on the novel as the Symbolists were on poetry, but for more than five years they have been stirring excitement, adulation, outrage and despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We must flush the poison. I have been stirring helplessly all day.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
