Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Mercedes-Benz, meanwhile, is welding armor plates onto a new supersedan, an incarnation of its famous Pullman model, that will sell for $1 million.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 10, 2014
Much of the riveting work is being performed by Cianbro Fabrication and Coating Corp., which is welding larger pieces of the bridge in Georgetown.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 1, 2014
Afterward, I go with Kinsella out to the hay shed, where he makes me promise not to look while he is welding.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010
The movement's strength lies in such groups as Virginians Deserve Better, Bucks County People Serving a Larger Mission, and Stand Up for Kansas, all of which Grey is welding together.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is rounding fresh poetical forms, he is polishing them in the lathe and is welding them; he is hammering out sentences and metaphors; he is working up his subject like soft wax.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
