Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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Cal Fire had zoned 72,000 acres as “very high” across the 16 Northern California counties in its old maps, created between 2008 and 2011.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Rave to the employees who assured me this wasn’t the first time a driver had zoned out and done this.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Hess was still talking, but Carroll had zoned out.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019
Periodically the investigators also interrupted the subjects and asked them if they had zoned out.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 22, 2014
The building should not have been going up in the first place, Mr. Aidala said, because it was taller than what the Buildings Department had zoned it for.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2010
