were compiling
- past progressive of compile.
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
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
All these online publications were compiling these lists: “Here’s 10 Black brands that you should know.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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 Murray, David Christie
