Present participle of empanel; the process of selecting and enrolling people as panel or jury members.
Present participle formed from empanel by adding -ing suffix, which comes from Old English and marks ongoing or progressive actions.
The -ing suffix is one of English's most common endings, used for everything from 'running' to 'empaneling'—it's so fundamental that it appears in speech constantly, making it invisible even though it's everywhere.
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