mention
verb (used with object)
to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of.
is mentioning
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present progressiveof mention (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It comes out every single year so without fail, someone is mentioning it, Oprah is mentioning it, everybody is mentioning it!
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
“But no one is mentioning that California’s largest grape buyers also imported the equivalent of 400,000 tons of grapes in 2022,” Spencer wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Here’s the development no one is mentioning: Americans are spending a whole lot more money per car.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 10, 2014
Not even notoriously loose-lipped owner Jerry Jones is mentioning Emmitt, as in Smith, and Dallas Cowboys running back DeMarco Murray in the same breath.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2011
Each one has been one and is mentioning something of some such thing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
