had detected
- past perfect of detect.
Example Sentences
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After carefully filtering the signal, the researchers confirmed they had detected an electromagnetic pulse measuring just 0.83 zeptojoules.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
In the 1960s Stephen Hawking demonstrated the Big Bang in theory, while Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had detected the background radiation that proved decisive evidence of the event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Still, federal authorities warned local law enforcement that they had detected a new broadcast of a likely encoded sequence that could be “an operational trigger” for “sleeper assets” potentially on U.S. soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
They had "detected and reported the missile attack", though they were not the ones that shot it down, she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
Once a sugar-sensing protein had detected sugar in the environment, it would recognize one such tag and turn the target genes on or off.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
