paste
noun
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
is pasting
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present progressiveof paste (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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Like if their entire job is pasting from one Excel database, one Excel spreadsheet to another Excel spreadsheet all day, they might themselves just write a macro to do it.
From The Verge ● Mar. 23, 2021
After a Sunday of rest I arrive somewhat ahead of time on Monday morning, which leaves me a few moments for conversation with a piece-worker who is pasting labels on mustard jars.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
Sample mounting is pasting or gluing samples of all kinds of material on cards or in books to be used by salesmen in selling goods.
From The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman
