interest
noun
the feeling of a person whose attention, concern, or curiosity is particularly engaged by something.
had interested
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past perfectof interest.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225, where computer chip-related issues had interested investors early, reversed course to be little changed, inching down less than 0.1% to finish at 40,398.03.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
The subject had interested him since his days as a budget analyst in Washington with the Office of Management and Budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2020
Indeed, Thouless’s 1998 book, Topological Quantum Numbers in Nonrelativistic Physics, which brought together many of the themes that had interested him throughout his career, is notable for its prescience.
From Nature ● May 1, 2019
Grobe, who notes that “we get 10,000 to 14,000 cars passing here a day,” says the couple have already had interested potential buyers, including “a local restaurant thinking of turning it into a brew pub.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
It was all they had seen and all that had interested them.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
