compare
verb (used with object)
to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences.
had compared
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past perfectof compare.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Cleeves said her daughter was a midwife and had compared grief to labour pains.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
In the large trial Moderna had compared its new vaccine with Fluarix, an approved flu shot from the company GSK.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Carney, he said, had compared “collective conduct to individual conduct.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
Recent research by David Markowitz at the University of Oregon successfully replicated earlier findings that had compared the rates of lying using different technologies.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 31, 2023
He had compared himself with a star, and other people with falling leaves, and yet he had felt some reproach in her words.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
