work
noun
had wrought
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past perfectof work.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Ben Franklin, famously asked by a woman on the street in Philadelphia what sort of government the Constitutional Convention had wrought, is reported to have said, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
It would be decades, however, before the FBI itself offered anything close to an apology, let alone any effort to repair the carnage it had wrought.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2025
During oral arguments in Rahimi, Barrett sounded deeply uncomfortable with what her court had wrought.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024
She said the infection had "wrought havoc" on her body but the hospital saved her arm with "extensive" surgery.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2022
She couldn’t risk the chaos that her first marriage had wrought.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
