react
verb (used without object)
to act in response to an agent or influence.
had reacted
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past perfectof react.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But in a subsequent post-match interview he accepted that he should not have ordered his team off the field and he had reacted "in the heat of the moment".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Then she says something you might not expect - that some Germans from Schönwald, where her family came from, had reacted angrily to her research.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
Perhaps all this helps explain why, as of Friday morning, more than 85,000 people had reacted to UnitedHealthcare’s solemn Facebook statement about Thompson’s death with a laugh emoji.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
School head teacher Bart Wielenga said he was "tremendously proud" of how the community at the school had reacted.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
I nearly said, ‘Theory number one, being disproved,’ but remembered how Mum had reacted to theory number eight.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
