recommend
verb (used with object)
to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably.
was recommending
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past progressiveof recommend.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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In brief remarks, he said management was recommending a dissolution and that a partner vote would be forthcoming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
On Saturday Transport Scotland posted on X on that Google Maps was falsely reporting the A9 as closed and was recommending an "inconvenient alternate route" when it remained open.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The next day, Tinker received a letter from Freeman stating that he was recommending she be transferred to the alternative school, effective Jan. 3.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
Following a meeting on Monday evening, the centrist One Nation group of Conservative MPs, which includes more than 100 MPs, said it was recommending its members vote for the bill at this stage.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023
He was indeed possessed of that first requisite for eminence, an enthusiastic attachment to the studies he was recommending.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
