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was grouping
  • past progressive of group.

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"All the neighbours came in and it was tea and cakes all around and everybody was grouping around this little nine inch television," Pearson said.

From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2022

“What I failed to realize I was grouping him into a box. Here’s this high up NFL executive and how’s he going to react?”

From The Guardian • Jan. 16, 2020

At the corporate level, NBCUniversal announced in September that it was grouping together Bravo, Oxygen, E!

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2015

He searched the Rocky Mountain states for vertebrate fossils; he was making the American Museum's vertebrate collection the best in the world; he was grouping and arranging exhibits for their best educational value.

From Time Magazine Archive

She bent her head down over the clusters she was grouping.

From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean