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Why was “finding” used here, not “found”?

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Rebecca

The progressive tense of "finding" is used here instead of "found" to show the continuation of the action in the past. It is common for news anchors to use progressive forms of verbs to emphasize the continuation of something even if it has already been completed, because this involves the listener more and makes it sound like they are there in the action.

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