had

Example Sentences

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He learned through writing the book that his mother hailed from a “family of brilliant and daring misfits who had carved new paths in botany and medicine and left-wing politics,” he writes.

From Los Angeles Times

Raman’s name had appeared on a list of Bass endorsers just weeks earlier.

From Los Angeles Times

Such a level of coordination among inauthentic online agents was unprecedented – AI models had been weaponized to give rise to a new generation of social agents, much more sophisticated than earlier social bots.

From Salon

African and Russian media identified him as a self-styled "pick-up artist" and online blogger in his thirties who had travelled to Ghana to secretly film his interactions with women.

From BBC

You could pinpoint the moment Scotland had England's streak stopped.

From BBC