study
noun
application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, such as by reading, investigation, or reflection.
had studied
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past perfectof study.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Voskanyan had studied in Armenia to be a dentist and later worked a variety of jobs in America including in construction, jewelry and as a dental technician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Boston University CTE Center said, external in 2023 that it had diagnosed CTE in 345 of the 376 former NFL players it had studied.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Greenspan understood business cycles better than anybody because he had studied every one of them since his first job out of college at the Conference Board starting in 1948.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The discovery revealed an entirely different side to a protein scientists had studied since the 1960s.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2026
He revealed later that he’d manipulated the Russian into a variation that Fischer had studied years before, and for which he had originated a favorable response.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
