tutor
noun
a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
is tutoring
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present progressiveof tutor (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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Min is tutoring a high-school student who’s the daughter of the wealthy Park family, but he’s leaving, to study in the United States.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
He is tutoring inner-city youths, cooking meals for the homeless and working to help formerly incarcerated people in the District find work.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 30, 2019
Today, that program is tutoring and mentoring hundreds of kids in South Philadelphia.
From Time ● May 18, 2015
This season, Strickland, 43, is tutoring John Wall.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2010
There is a special Harvard student here, a Mr. Hickman, who is tutoring Mr. Gilder's children.
From My Boyhood by John Burroughs
