review
noun
a critical article or report, as in a periodical, on a book, play, recital, or the like; critique; evaluation.
was reviewing
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past progressiveof review.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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His office, he said, was reviewing the information and public disclosures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Media watchdog IPSO, which operates a 24-hour emergency harassment helpline, said it was reviewing a flood "of complaints" about the coverage of Arday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The center’s operator told The Times it was reviewing the report and that nothing matters more than the health, safety and well-being of people under its care.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The commissioners accepted the gifts even as the FCC was reviewing or about to review major Paramount business decisions, including two megamergers.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Whewell’s motive for raising the issue in print in 1834 may partly have been that ‘scientist’, unlike ‘man of science’, is a gender-neutral term—he was reviewing a book by the science writer Mary Somerville.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
