appreciate
verb (used with object)
to be grateful or thankful for.
had appreciated
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past perfectof appreciate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Many homes in the core downtown area had appreciated significantly in the five years between being announced and finally being move-in ready, the agents said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Aby, 23, an English literature and creative writing student, said she had appreciated content warnings in the past.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Before the fires, the value of their property had appreciated to $1.2 million, though Ford still owes nearly $500,000 on the house after his father refinanced several times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
The bitcoin was worth $71 million at the time, but had appreciated to more than $4.5 billion by the time of their arrests.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
And yet I felt sure, from what I knew of him, that he had appreciated the attractions of the place less than any one of us—had not, in fact, been reached by them at all.
From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson
