complete
adjective
was completing
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past progressiveof complete.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The couple first met in 2018 through a dance society at the University of Edinburgh, when Anna Maria was on an Erasmus exchange and Chihon was completing his postgraduate studies.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The breakthrough came while Lambie was completing a PhD at the University of Auckland and the MacDiarmid Institute.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
At the time, Zhang was completing a doctorate in computer science at Harvard, and Gasztowtt was studying the same subject as an undergraduate at Oxford University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
A Lebanese judicial source confirmed the bail was paid and said Kadhafi's legal team was completing release procedures.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2025
At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
