Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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In other cities, steelworkers are reported to have welded new obstructions into place: forging their own defences.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022
Many of the trucks have welded steel-plate armor, turrets and firing slots.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 20, 2020
Instead, Co-Producers Jerry Wald and Charles K. Feldman have welded the play's fragments into a literal, realistic continuity, with only a gesture or two in the direction of the original atmosphere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Workmen have welded closed two of its four massive entrance gates.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hundred years of life in communion, a hundred years of distress in common, of hope in common, have welded them together into one unity, into one new feeling.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
