conduct
noun
personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
was conducting
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past progressiveof conduct.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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Anthropic’s model was conducting a test involving interactions with randomly selected websites when it submitted the tip pretending to be someone who might have information about an unsolved case, police said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
As late as the mid-2010s, China was conducting AI research with neuroscience funding, Hannas said — something he saw less of in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
According to FlightRadar24, the aircraft, which went by call sign SNAKE4, was conducting exercises off the coast of Monterey County and San Luis Obispo County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
GRIDCo said it was conducting a comprehensive technical investigation to determine the outage's cause.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
There were studies of shadows against a faded brick wall, photographs of feathers clotting the shoreline of Shaker Lake, experiments Mia was conducting with printing photographs on different surfaces: vellum, aluminum foil, newspapers.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
