link
noun
one of the rings or separate pieces of which a chain is composed.
had linked
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past perfectof link.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It was 1967 and they had linked me to a U.S. military base in Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The remains were unidentified until the Sheriff’s Department announced this week it had linked the skull to the 1987 disappearance and death of a 48-year-old woman from Trinity County.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2025
Prosecutors in Sweden have closed an inquiry into a case of alleged rape, which Swedish media had linked to French football captain Kylian Mbappé.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2024
We did that a few years ago and the overwhelming thing about 23andMe was that it had linked me to, like,1,700 people.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2024
But the discovery had a more important consequence: conceptually, Morgan had not just linked genes; he had linked two disciplines—cell biology and genetics.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
