- present participle of be.
being
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Jill Kenning experiences constant pain in her eye, which she compared to being "stabbed with a hot poker"
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The matinee timing of Game 6 is because of Atlanta’s NBA team, the Hawks, also being scheduled to play at State Farm Arena on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
She says she doesn’t believe he should be penalized for being good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
But in October, it is being carried out on a stretcher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Far in the back was a station that was made of crisscrossing beams, upon which were thin strips of meat being turned into jerky.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Stories involving miniature humanlike beings appear throughout folklore around the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
After a murder of crows kidnaps her little brother, a young girl ventures into an enchanted forest filled with talking animals and other magical beings, where a looming war will decide everyone's fate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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
"It spun from our treatment, and not being treated like human beings."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Human beings, Montaigne argued, are imperfect, and so human knowledge is necessarily unreliable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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