reset
verb (used with object)
to set again.
was resetting
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past progressiveof reset.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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Smith-Schuster then signed a three-year contract with the New England Patriots, but lasted just one season with the franchise that was resetting after Bill Belichick’s departure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
So when the camera had finished a run and was resetting, I asked Her Majesty to breathe.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
When he left work on Friday and turned it on, he noticed the screen was resetting itself “every 30 to 45 seconds.”
From The Verge ● Feb. 14, 2018
All of the time I was resetting my traps I kept looking around in the trees for a monkey.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The gate of the little yard in which the cow-shed stood was off its hinges, and Andy was resetting the post and making the fence tight and tidy.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
