power
noun
ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
were powering
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past progressiveof power.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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Thomson Reuters subsequently detailed how Anthropic and other AI providers were powering its own legal tools.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
"In our operations centre you would seen all the red lights go, that the systems were powering down," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
Blink-182 were powering through one pop-punk burner after another, a virtually sold-out Climate Pledge Arena crowd hanging on every cymbal crash and speedball harmony.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
By 1776, British factories were powering some of their operations with improved steam engines designed by the Scottish engineer James Watt.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Cargo ships were powering through the waves below.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
