brand
noun
the kind, grade, or make of a product or service, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like.
had branded
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past perfectof brand.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t just the silicone that media outlets had branded suspicious and sinister.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
“The war against the Allies was nearly over, but the Reich’s war on the German citizens it had branded as traitors would be fought to the very end,” Mr. Freedland writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Pecker obliged to a point, describing others he had helped in the past, people his employees had branded “FOPs,” for “Friends of Pecker.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
A five-day immersive musical and theatrical event, Boomtown had branded its 2021 comeback "The Gathering", as a celebration of the return of social contact.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2021
To my astonishment I heard that Buddy Nealson had branded me a “smuggler of reaction.”
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
