edit
verb (used with object)
to supervise or direct the preparation of (a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.); serve as editor of; direct the editorial policies of.
had edited
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past perfectof edit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Chan had edited the videos to make fun of their son.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2026
The raw footage shows she was quoted accurately, although CBS had edited her response by using her most cogent sentence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2025
And his daughter Anne, whose diary he had edited and published, had become an icon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2025
Speaking to RNZ’s “Checkpoint” news program on Monday, the employee said he had edited “several stories that way” in the past.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
She had edited it herself and toned down his rhetoric, so that his argument—that only a unitary government could remove the divisions of regionalism—was clearer.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
