being

Example Sentences

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Mental health problems contributed to her homelessness, but being on the streets exacerbated them.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

If you are learning something a machine can learn from historical data, your skill is being commodified.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

“And part of being Colombian is that there’s so many things outside of the normal.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

There a few things that people across the political aisle can agree on, but the government being involved in artificial intelligence is one of them.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Although it is being pulled by four horses instead of the usual six, this is a New Hampshire-built Concord stagecoach, somewhere in Chile at about the time that Phineas Gage arrived there.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman