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  • verb Present participle of busy.

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Examples

  • I understand the idea of busying yourself with some task to keep yourself from falling apart, but the way they're doing it doesn't ring true to me.

    unknown title 2009

  • She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Right now the GOP is busying pocketing as much money as possible before the Corporations appoint the new President of the USA.

    Think Progress » For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WV’s Coal River Mountain. 2010

  • It's a question all education leaders, politicians, and the chattering classes have been busying themselves with since the release of Davis Guggenheim's searing (and unflattering) documentary.

    Steve Barr At Big Task Weekend: We're Close, But We're Still Just 'Cute' Huffington Post 2010

  • Typically, the final Bosnian peace accord - that remarkable achievement in modern world history - was reached at the very moment when Speaker Newt Gingrich was, typically, busying himself with what he had called, when threatening it, a "train wreck" - closing down the U.S. Government!

    Nigel Hamilton: Rahm Is Going Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • Pearl Hand sat beside me, busying herself with sharpening her hierro knife.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Pearl Hand sat beside me, busying herself with sharpening her hierro knife.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • She had to settle for busying herself with the phonograph, grabbing the first record to hand: “Hello Stranger.”

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

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