opine
verb (used with or without object)
to hold or express an opinion.
had opined
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past perfectof opine.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Dr. Gruber also said that FDA officials had opined that “absent a license, states cannot require mandatory vaccination” while raising concerns about the rise in COVID-19 cases.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Decades earlier, she had opined that “the greatest writing is omnisexual, like Shakespeare.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
For years, doctors at the maximum-security hospital where Hoggle has been held — Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup — had opined that she was incompetent and dangerous but restorable.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2020
They had opined too much, or their questions had been too narrow, or they had lost track of the order.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2019
It was to be a dinner, as Mrs. Tempest had opined.
From Vixen, Volume I. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
