specialize
verb (used without object)
to pursue some special line of study, work, etc.; have a specialty.
were specializing
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past progressiveof specialize.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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At first, when few were specializing in the field, it was a lonely quest.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
“He was particularly interested in the younger Pasifika doctors coming through, finding out who they were and what they were specializing in. He was a real fatherly figure.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2020
By that time they were specializing in imaging technology for the government, and when the government stopped all its non-essential equipment purchases, Lyon lost his biggest customer.
From Inc ● Nov. 7, 2011
Twenty years ago young students of chemistry were specializing in electrochemistry, the breaking up of compounds by means of an electrical current.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes she stopped in the shade of pepper, eucalyptus, or palm, where the larks were specializing in their age-old offertory.
From Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton-Porter
