delve
verb (used without object)
to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like; investigate.
had delved
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past perfectof delve.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But Harris, a “quantitative thinker” who had delved into the numbers, was characteristically unmoved, the advisor said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
Anderson had delved into the world of the Old Masters, recreating the vulnerability of the masterpiece oil paintings in a contemporary way — with sensitivity, flair, and restrained visual drama.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
Brown had delved into how prosecutors led by Alex Acosta, who would later become Donald Trump’s secretary of labor, went behind the backs of Epstein’s victims to give the pedophile financier a scandalously lenient deal.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2021
I tell Kolbert I liked the book but wish it had delved into other options – politics, economics, culture, education, nature-based solutions.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 6, 2021
He had delved deeply into the mysteries of mental and spiritual therapeutics, and had closely studied the influences surrounding the origin of individual human beings.
From An American Suffragette by Isaac Newton Stevens
