proctor
noun
a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
was proctoring
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past progressiveof proctor.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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That June, Professor Mackie, then a research fellow at Oxford, was proctoring an exam when he read an article in The International Herald Tribune about what Tostan had done.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
