date
noun
a particular month, day, and year at which some event happened or will happen.
was dating
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past progressiveof date.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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Other attendees included Ayers and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was dating Trump Jr. at the time and later joined the second Trump administration as the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The news that she was dating Ventimiglia kicked the frenzy into overdrive, especially since he was 30 years old at the time while she was 18.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
As Marisa Kabas reported this week in her newsletter the Handbasket, in the winter of 2019, Moraff was dating a woman in Pittsburgh he’d met through an app.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
After being informed the sale had fallen through, Amanda picked up the phone to Joanne to tell her the man she was dating was not who he said he was.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Not going to lie, I'm a little freaked out that I'm dating someone who was dating someone who is dating Taylor Metternich.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
