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With "since", I can talk about 1) something which started in the past and which continues up to the present, 2) something which happened one or several times in the past.

1) I have worked for this company since 2015. (I have been working for this company since 2015.)

2) I have swum in sea since 2015. ( I have swum once or twice since 2015. It is not meant for continual swimming. )

Am I right?

Eddie Kal
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    I have been swimming since 2015 would be used to refer to occasional swimming, regular swimming, or continual swimming. Literal continual swimming for 5 years, while factually impossible, is still not ungrammatical. – Jason Bassford May 17 '20 at 04:34
  • Sorry. Maybe my question is not clear. I am not asking about that. I am asking about whether or not I can talk about 2) something which happened only several times in the past with the word SINCE. – Stephen Liu May 17 '20 at 04:41
  • My comment addressed any number of occurrences: occasional, regular, and continual. (I only expanded on continual because you had mentioned it.) Several times is occasional. Between then and now, you have been swimming occasionally … – Jason Bassford May 17 '20 at 04:47
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    'Since' doesn't convey 'once or twice'. You would have to say, 'I've swum in the sea once or twice since 2015.' But it depends on context. If I tell you I haven't swum in the sea since 2015, you can then say, "I have. I've swum in the sea since 2015." – Old Brixtonian May 17 '20 at 04:56
  • @Xanne Why do you discourage the use of "since" in sentence 2? How is it misused ? – Stephen Liu May 17 '20 at 06:11
  • Since is often used to convey regular habits, which occur more often than once or twice. – anouk May 18 '20 at 15:01

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