program
noun
a plan of action to accomplish a specified end.
were programming
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past progressiveof program.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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Put them in an ordered queue as though you were programming a triple feature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2020
I don’t really think the people who were programming were racist.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2019
The Georgia patches underscored a disturbing reality — no one really knew what companies were programming into their black boxes, in part because the lab testing reports were confidential.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
Women were programming computers in the early days of the military and Nasa.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2018
“Last time you were programming to only a couple of channels,” Jobs told him, meaning the Web and e-mail.
From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 14, 2012
