Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Explaining how Tuesday's figures had dwarfed that traffic, Flightradar24 said: "Based on our experience last month, we expected a large influx of users, but this immediate, massive spike was beyond what we had anticipated."
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
Distance had dwarfed them, and the cold regard of those mighty peaks ignored them.
From Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany
The atomic bombs had dwarfed the international issues to complete insignificance.
From The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But the effort of the national struggle had dwarfed all these misunderstandings and misfortunes as in Great Britain the call of the common fatherland has dwarfed the dispute between Unionists and Home Rulers.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
It was clearly not the child which the tenement had dwarfed in their case, but the memory or the moral sense of the parents.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
