doctor
noun
a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
were doctoring
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past progressiveof doctor.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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In many of the cases, prosecutors said, the students were not aware that their parents were doctoring their test scores and lying to get them into school.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2019
Even in ’08, people were doctoring his campaign signs to make them say RuPaul.
From Time ● Jun. 22, 2012
Analysts, Spitzer would show, were doctoring their reports--which the public relies on for stock information--to win business for their banks' investment arms or to downgrade companies that didn't play ball.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’d say that some of our old time enemies were doctoring the fuel, if it wasn’t that the crowd is off the job after that last drubbing I gave Hall and Wilson,” remarked the fireman.
From Ralph on the Overland Express The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman
They suffered doubt as to our powers to linger in their hearts while we were doctoring them.
From In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford
