had reprinted
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past perfectof reprint.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Plaindealer said it had reprinted 250 copies of the edition before Mr. Choate returned the newspapers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
The Mail, which had reprinted a truncated version of the online piece in print, almost immediately apologised.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2014
Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On the 12th, Cusack had reprinted an article from a San Francisco paper; the Germans had complained; and de Coetlogon, in a moment of weakness, had fined the editor twenty pounds.
From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson
To Charles Thomson he wrote that he had reprinted everything from America that he thought might help their common cause.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce