will have been skirmishing

• future perfect progressive

  future perfect progressive

  Used to describe a continuous action that will progress up until a designated point of completion in the future.

  of skirmish.
  skirmish

  noun

  a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.

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