evolve
verb (used with object)
to develop gradually.
were evolving
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past progressiveof evolve.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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But Guehi knew machinations were evolving in private.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
There were at least 17 ice ages during the Pleistocene, when scrub mints were evolving, and each cold period was separated by warm intervals in which much of Florida was swallowed by the sea.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
She said the priorities of the summit were evolving multilateral development banks, debt sustainability and mobilising private capital.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2023
“The group’s iconic style can be seen as a hybridization of Eastern-Asian calligraphic traditions and the tendencies toward gestural abstraction that were evolving across international modern painting,” Smith said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
While these humans were evolving in Europe and Asia, evolution in East Africa did not stop.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
