- present participle of study.
studying
Example Sentences
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She stayed up late studying how missiles work, digging up old Soviet-era manuals and consulting a nonagenarian rocket scientist whom she hired as an adviser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Those include the third season of “XO Kitty,” about a young woman studying in Korea; and ice skating drama called “Finding Her Edge.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Measuring fluid circulation in and around the human brain could open the door to new ways of studying neurological disease and brain injury.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
She lost her sight in a childhood illness before the Korean War and by 11 was studying Korean fortune-telling -- predicting subjects' futures based on their birth dates and times.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I’ve spent the last three years studying writing, and I still don’t have the words.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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