police
noun
an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
was policing
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past progressiveof police.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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One potential bright spot for Bass was policing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
Skin care was policing and panic, a game of whack-a-mole, or else just drudgery, a technical exercise in fending off the inevitable.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2021
The company says only that the issues she found, however significant, were less pressing than the many other issues the civic integrity team was policing at the time, in other countries all over the world.
From The Verge ● Sep. 16, 2020
At the very moment, his father was policing " anti-corruption" efforts in their country.
From Fox News ● Dec. 11, 2019
There was policing twice a day, "policing" meaning the sweeping clean of the acre or two of ground within the limits of Camp McPherson.
From On Guard Mark Mallory's Celebration by Upton Sinclair
