yield
verb (used with object)
to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation.
was yielding
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past progressiveof yield.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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One pushed back: Why would they sell an investment that was yielding more than 8%?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
It was yielding 4.5% when issued in June and its yield has since fallen by 82 basis points.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
“The idealism of the 1960s was yielding to the materialism of the 1980s, a new preoccupation with the navel-gazing, ego-stroking life,” Grynbaum writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
Maybe the gerontocracy was yielding, and America-2 was turning a new page.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
Despite Kurie’s doubts, signs already had emerged that tinkering was yielding to serious science in the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
