- present participle of receive.
receiving
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For two semesters, I dressed up to teach from my living room laptop, receiving excellent evaluations.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Young people have told BBC News previously they have applied for hundreds of jobs before even receiving a response.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
That study often compared Head Start children with those in other preschool programs, not children receiving no early education.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Compared with the control animals, mice receiving R inulinivorans showed an increase of around 30% in forelimb grip strength, which the researchers used as a measure of muscle function.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
But to accelerate his progress, she began to speak to him in Spanish, coaxed him to take up his text, and tutored him, and within a short while he was receiving high grades.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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