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"has been laughing" is perfectly acceptable in written English.
You could use it to express that someone has been in a fit of laughter for an extended period of time. For example, "The wriggling toddler has been laughing uncontrollably for five minutes now."
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"My wife has been laughing about it all day," he said.
While she talks, Adele has been laughing, joking with the other women about the crazy demands made by her employers, the abuse and the offensive language.
They're desperately cruel and it's deeply hurtful to her, but they're exactly the traits that the audience has been laughing at, so you've got to be able to deliver a bit of a reprimand.
"When the league asks you to play four games in a week, everybody I have spoken to in England has been laughing at it and laughing at us really," Rangers midfielder Lee McCulloch told The Canadian Press.
The Big Twin crowd may scoff, but the rest of the motorcycling community has been laughing at those riders for decades.
He has not cried or complained once, instead he has been laughing about how his hardest kicks didn't move Brayden one bit (that kid is solid) and how Carlos' fists started flying partway through their match.
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Horalek, predictably, has been laughed out of town.
It is not war that has been laughed to scorn but the possibility of sane action.
EVP has been laughed off by disbelievers, who put the noises down to electrical interference.
The two of them had been laughing.
We've been laughing ever since.
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