route
noun
a course, way, or road for passage or travel.
was routing
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past progressiveof route.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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Shortly before a recent news report revealed it was struggling to do so, it said it was routing all data from its U.S. users through servers controlled by the American cloud computing company Oracle.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
“Clearly, Google Maps was routing everyone the same way.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
Asked about the matter at the briefing, Trump confirmed the stockpile was low but said that the government was routing materials straight to hospitals.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2020
After Wilson-Foley obtained Rowland’s support, a reporter revealed that Wilson-Foley’s husband, Brian Foley, was routing secret payments to Rowland through an attorney.
From Slate ● Apr. 4, 2018
She sang "Robin Adair" on one of these occasions with so much conviction that it seemed as though she was routing Robin from his first sleep.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
