occasion
noun
a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurrences.
had occasioned
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past perfectof occasion.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Rather than a hobby indulged in a vacuum, ceramics had become deeply enmeshed with Rogen’s sense of himself as a creative person — and had occasioned epiphanies he wanted to weave back into moviemaking.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021
She opened the package and gently stroked the purchase that had occasioned our odyssey: a five-dollar pink baby towel.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 16, 2018
I lingered some minutes, being unaccustomed to retiring from a chamber without permission or direction; but our hostess having disappeared, I passed above-stairs to see what strife had occasioned such an outburst.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Not being able to make it out, I asked what had occasioned the alarm.
From The Beautiful White Devil by Guy Newell Boothby
He went out and had got rid of the slight uneasiness the interview had occasioned him before he reached the water-front, where he found Mrs. Nairn and Evelyn awaiting him with Carroll in attendance.
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
