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have been unfolding
  • present perfect progressive of unfold.

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For years, Samsung and other Android phone makers have been unfolding phones into mini tablets and flipping them open with early-2000s nostalgia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

At certain moments, the protest could have been unfolding anywhere in the world, where people don’t face the dangers of speaking their minds.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

Both cases have been unfolding in court simultaneously.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2022

But locals blame the construction of these dams for the disasters that have been unfolding recently.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2021

The tale I have been unfolding shows one unwholesome and vicious aspect of sailor life.

From Windjammers and Sea Tramps by Runciman, Walter