endorse
verb (used with object)
to approve, support, or sustain.
had endorsed
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past perfectof endorse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Bass: That will be a mystery that I will always wonder, considering that she had endorsed me and was very public about that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
The union’s negotiating team had endorsed the offer, which provides for wage increases it said could compound to about 32% over the length of the contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
All but a handful of Fifa's 210 members had endorsed his bid for a fourth term in charge of world football, and he faced no meaningful challenge from any quarter.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
But in the race to take on Feely, Amish Shah, an emergency room physician, is leading Marlene Galán-Woods, a former broadcast journalist whom Democrats’ House campaign arm had endorsed.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Two successful impeachments of lower federal judges in recent years have, however, restored something like the broader conception of the term which Madison and Hamilton had endorsed.
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
