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is busying

  • present progressive of busy (3rd person singular).

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But when Roger finds out one of his top account men is busying himself with writing he tells him to cut it out.

From Time Apr. 16, 2012

But the Federal Office of Education is busying itself with these matters.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Zack is busying himself by making vroom, vroom noises, Dad motions for me to step back outside.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

Darkness is falling, and Theresa is busying herself with something or another.

From Poor Folk by Hogarth, C. J.

He had written to the Duke of Wellington and Peel, and he is busying himself in consulting and communicating with all the Peers and influential Commoners of the party whom he can find in town.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry