reopen
verb (used with or without object)
to open again.
had reopened
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past perfectof reopen.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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On Monday, Van Houten, the Tompkins County district attorney, said he had reopened the case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Eight days after her Faceland bleph surgery, Laura, not her real name, made her first of four visits to A&E because her eyelid wounds had reopened.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Local people were going about their business and shops shut on Saturday had reopened, as had Niamey's main market.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
On Sunday, they went to buy frozen baguettes, orange juice and pasta from the one supermarket that had reopened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
He had confirmed Plutarch’s theory and, whether he liked it or not, he had reopened the question of the existence of other habitable worlds.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
