prosecute
had prosecuted
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past perfectof prosecute.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And a month after that, the Senate confirmed Dettelbach, giving the ATF its first confirmed director since 2015, one who had prosecuted gun crimes as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
The council said it had prosecuted seven people for 21 separate offences since September last year, and that it "regularly seized equipment from unlicensed buskers, including in and around Leicester Square".
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025
She also defended the scope of the racketeering indictment she brought in August, noting that she had prosecuted far larger racketeering cases in her career.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Prosecutors for the 11th District Attorney’s Office, which covers the area where Morphew lived with her husband and which had prosecuted Barry Morphew before dropping the charges against him, declined comment.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
In one case, about six years earlier, Baird had prosecuted a twenty-one-year-old man who had been driving a small Toyota pickup through Logan Canyon, along a narrow, sometimes dangerous road.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
