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was labelling
  • past progressive of label.

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He highlighted his case to journalists, stating that appeals are "largely ignored", business accounts were being affected, and AI was "labelling ordinary people as criminal abusers".

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

The fame of these great men, who were easily accessible when the café they went to happened to be known, had crossed to London with so much else London was labelling fin-de-siècle.

From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins

"Is Minnie not well?" said Thomas Carpenter, entering one morning, the pleasant room, where Anna was labelling some preserves.

From Minnie's Sacrifice by Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

By his own deliberate act he was labelling himself untrustworthy, and no uttermost striving on his part could rehabilitate him.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John

One afternoon, while she was lying with closed eyes, she heard the rattle of the doctor's old buggy outside, and heard Manzanita greet him from where she was labelling jelly glasses on the porch.

From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Norris, Kathleen Thompson