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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“I knew one song. … I knew she was dating the football guy. I knew she was fabulously wealthy, and that was it,” Jerry said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
He said he first fell in love with Malibu in the late 1970s, when he was dating a woman from Beverly Hills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
Marx took this to mean that the recently single Ellsberg was dating a lot of women.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
