was establishing
- past progressive of establish.
Example Sentences
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Last week, the justice department announced it was establishing what it called the "anti-weaponisation fund".
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Kering said it was establishing a new business unit for its jewelry operations and appointed a chief executive to lead it, bringing Boucheron, Pomellato and other brands under one roof to streamline decision-making.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
One of the team's most important achievements was establishing the neutral axis purely from the geometry of the color metric.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Meta announced on Jan. 12 that it was establishing a new initiative dubbed Meta Compute as it works to build out more AI computing power.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
About the same time, on the nearby island of Cos, Hippocrates was establishing his famous medical tradition, now barely remembered because of the Hippocratic oath.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
