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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District Attorney Nathan Hochman launched an investigation using law-enforcement databases with records of virtually everyone the county had prosecuted since the 1960s, including juveniles whose files had been scrubbed from the probation department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
I had allowed myself to believe that the people who had prosecuted Walter were just misguided, possibly incompetent.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
