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was finding
  • past progressive of find.

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The team's most important advance was finding a way to define the neutral axis using only the geometry of the color metric.

From Science Daily • Jun. 7, 2026

In 2020, the 88-year-old was finding his cottage increasingly difficult to cope with and moved to Audley Group's Flete House to be closer to his daughter.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The hard part was finding anyone willing to review it.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

“Her husband was losing weight and she was finding it unnerving. Until she started losing weight,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Since symbolic logic was part of philosophy, I had chosen philosophy as my major subject, and I was finding it very exciting.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok