convict
verb (used with object)
to prove or declare guilty of an offense, especially after a legal trial.
had convicted
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past perfectof convict.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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However in his appeal Kurz argued that the judge who had convicted him was biased.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
Khan was taken by police from his home in Lahore and transferred to a jail outside Islamabad, where a court had convicted him of charges arising over the sale of state gifts.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2023
But by the time it shut down in 2017, the tribunal had convicted 83 high-ranking wartime political and military officials, most of them from Bosnia.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
Saudi Arabia said in September 2020 that it had convicted eight people for the killing but did not name them.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2022
Several years earlier, the US government had convicted Abel of running a network of Soviet spies in the United States.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
