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present participle and gerund of spy examples
countable and uncountable, plural spyings
espionage; the act of secretly gathering information quotations examples
There are two ways in which the obsessive character of jealousy tends to exert itself: one is in the need to know, the endless tests and investigations and spyings that are so characteristic of jealousy.
1980, Amélie Rorty, Explaining Emotions, page 472