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was sensing
  • past progressive of sense.

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“It came from a place of real honesty and rawness that I was sensing from what I could see of Amy, rather than like trying to be her,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

When it ran its sweep of the seafloor, no data on what it was sensing was sent to the surface in real time.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2022

“I was sensing a mutual, if very positive, ambivalence,” Austin said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2018

So if I was sensing a loss, well, I guess he was it.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2014

This time, I got a new kind of twinge in my gut, ever so faint, as if a hollow had been here and gone, and I was sensing its residue.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs