- present participle of be.
being
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Navy is generally able to find such ships by flying aircraft overhead and launching unmanned systems in the water—in addition to its ships being equipped with advanced radar and intelligence systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The Air Canada flight was being towed to its gate when the other plane made contact with its tail, an Air Canada spokesperson told NBC 4 news.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Polanski released a lengthy statement on Monday night to say he would not accept anyone being excluded from the party "because of the religious or communal body they are part of".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
And in France, child welfare group e-Enfance said last month it had received some 20 reports of women being filmed without their consent, in most of those cases with Meta glasses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
I hear the start of the melody in my head, and it gives me chills to think of it being played in full.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The answer, in the end, was by breaking his lifelong conditioning, contradicting one of the main qualifications of heroic worthiness established by a council of powerful beings most people aren’t even aware exists.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
"Why is it that human beings don't have the right to challenge these things?"
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Since the 1980s, psychologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle has been warning that modern technology is scrambling our ability to live in the real world and feel empathy for fellow human beings.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
"In a care setting, people living with dementia, like my father, should be treated with respect, dignity, and patience and courtesy. They should be treated as human beings and that's all I was asking for."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
A foreign diplomat told a reporter, “You can’t believe it’s possible that human beings can be so regimented or that, in such a short time, an entire nation could have become so war-minded.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
