withdraw
verb (used with object)
to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove.
have been withdrawing
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present perfect progressiveof withdraw.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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"The fact that victims have been withdrawing their cases because they have taken too long has been a disgrace," said shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Wealthier Americans," Robert Reich lamented as far back as the early 1990s, "have been withdrawing into their own neighborhoods and clubs for generations."
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2023
It also will apply to withdrawals from dollar accounts, where customers have been withdrawing some of their trapped savings in the local currency, at an exchange rate far lower than market value.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Several million Afghans have been displaced within their country over years of war, 270,000 of them in fighting since January as U.S.-led foreign forces have been withdrawing, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
From Reuters ● Jul. 15, 2021
The track’s surveyed and blazed; they’re working at it in sections, but there are big gaps where nothing has been done yet, and they have been withdrawing a large 185 number of men.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
