overlook
verb (used with object)
to fail to notice, perceive, or consider.
had overlooked
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past perfectof overlook.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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That’s why legal briefs in the case are riddled with citations to an obscure 1915 book by a Boston lawyer named Josiah Henry Benton, who argued that historians had overlooked the practice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"Our result shows that it is not only possible, but that it can be achieved with a surprisingly elegant architecture that the integrated-photonics community had overlooked."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
He returned home and spent time looking back on the defeat, "wondering if there was anything I had overlooked".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
He is, after all, the same man who confidently declared he had a cure for COVID-19 that those silly medical researchers had overlooked: injecting household cleaners directly into your lungs.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025
Maybe it held some information he had overlooked.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
