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was studying
  • past progressive of study.

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She often works on her business and administration management degree during national team camps, and was studying when she received her first senior call-up.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Elsewhere on campus, Sarah Jachim, Ph.D., -- who was also completing graduate research at the time -- was studying aging and senescent cells in the laboratory of Nathan LeBrasseur, Ph.D.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

"CalTech is very competitive. He was studying a lot," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

At the time, Zhang was completing a doctorate in computer science at Harvard, and Gasztowtt was studying the same subject as an undergraduate at Oxford University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

He’d walked up to Travis, was studying him, hard.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi