- present participle of be.
being
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"We talked about being each other's best men," Cash says.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The stock market debut is being seen as a gauge of how long the AI spending boom can last.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
Son was still licking wounds from misadventures in startup investing, most notably a series of disastrous bets on WeWork, when SoftBank missed out on being early into OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
After being found, the ship's timbers were disassembled and went through an extensive restoration process before the 2,500 parts were finally returned to a storage facility in Newport.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
“La, stop being so dramatic. It’s not like I’m sending you to jail.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“Human beings have lived in space since the year 2000. It’s an oasis that we, as human beings, built.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Stories involving miniature humanlike beings appear throughout folklore around the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
But at the bottom of this stack, it is still human beings in trenches who are holding the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
As human beings began to organize themselves into sedentary, agrarian societies, they formed mutualistic relationships with the wildcats that prevented vermin from decimating their grain stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Ophanim, with their many eyes and the thin outline of fire around them, were celestial beings who rarely bothered with such pedestrian things as nightclubs and concert halls.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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