Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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In the current year alone, record sales have nosed ahead of compact discs.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
I’m mulling my next book project and have nosed around a few topics.
From Fox News ● Jul. 9, 2019
Since the dams have come down, some of the sturgeon have nosed upstream into the newly free-flowing river.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2016
Campaigning principally on the issue that his opponent had a job that he wanted, Democratic Governor William John Bulow, famed tobacco-spitter, appeared to have nosed Insurgent Republican William Henry McMaster out of his Senate seat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He ought to have nosed out something against the woman!
From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
