switch
noun
a turning, shifting, or changing.
had switched
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past perfectof switch.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The TV was usually tuned to sports, but the patrons had switched on the business news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Her neighbour, 45-year-old Munni Bai, who has asthma, had switched to using an electric cooker as well as biogas from cow dung, to help her breathing.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
Basically, the paper looked at what share of people had switched from one employer to another in the prior year without any intervening spell of nonemployment.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026
The momentum and the game had switched to Los Alamitos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
Mendel had switched to plants and moved the experiments to the hothouse outside.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
