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were plugging

  • past progressive of plug.

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“We were plugging numbers and looking at everything like everyone else was,” Harlan said.

From Washington Times Aug. 8, 2023

At the end of the first period against the Hurricanes Tuesday night, the were plugging along nicely in their efforts to build on the consistency of a two-win weekend.

From Washington Post Dec. 4, 2013

It was perhaps a fairly minor cultural gap in the station's cultural arsenal that we were plugging.

From BBC May 21, 2013

"The players – at a Premier League club – were plugging them with tissue paper," Barton said.

From The Guardian Nov. 24, 2012

And soon they were plugging along up the great river, threading their way among the countless bars and shoals.

From The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Hough, Emerson