groom
noun
a bridegroom.
was grooming
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past progressiveof groom.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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Soon after Citi Holdings was unwound in 2016, Mason said, Corbat, by then the bank’s CEO, was grooming him to take over as chief financial officer, which he did in 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
President Museveni, 77, has been in power in Uganda since 1986, and there has been long-standing speculation that he was grooming his son - a powerful figure in the military - to succeed him.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2021
“After a few minutes, we saw that those animals actually stayed together, and one animal was grooming the other,” said Mr. Wu, who works in the neurobiology lab of Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2021
He was grooming him to be his successor.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
So it continued, a slow courtship on both parts, until within a few minutes, Otto was grooming them, the boys giggling as he ran his fingers over their scalps.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
