compile
verb (used with object)
to put together (documents, selections, or other materials) in one book or work.
were compiling
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past progressiveof compile.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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He said he first became aware that losses were compiling last September.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024
“I know that they were compiling them together,” he told the Ways and Means Committee.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
It had already been considered as a possible "reunion song" for the Beatles in 1995, as they were compiling their career-spanning Anthology series.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2023
Yulia Svyrydenko, who also serves as first vice prime minister, said government officials were compiling macroeconomic forecasts ahead of the start of negotiations next month with the International Monetary Fund on a fresh lending programme.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2022
There is a very old story to the effect that a party of gentlemen who were compiling a dictionary described a crab as 'a small red animal which walks backwards.'
From My Contemporaries In Fiction by David Christie Murray
