dog
noun
a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
had dogged
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past perfectof dog.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Similar concerns had dogged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s, when then-President Ronald Reagan pursued his Strategic Defense Initiative, widely known as Star Wars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
China’s abrupt removal of Qin Gang as foreign minister did not stop the questions that had dogged Chinese officials in the month since he vanished from public view: Where is Mr. Qin?
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The one-time law professor was elected in 2019 with more than 70 percent of the vote on promises to eradicate corruption and fix the problems that had dogged Tunisia since its heady revolutionary days.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
The scandal is especially damaging for Mr Ramaphosa because he came to power vowing to clear up the corruption which had dogged the country under his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2022
And a thought—a pin-sharp, unacknowledged thought that had dogged him since the kraken had lifted Mal onto a piece of driftwood— made him say: “The Immortal? The lost Immortal?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
