occasion
noun
a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences.
were occasioning
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past progressiveof occasion.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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The mob had poured down from the Etoile by thousands and ten thousands to see the illuminations, and did not know the havoc they were occasioning.
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace
