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hadn't

[had-nt]

  1. contraction of had not.



hadn't

/ ˈhædənt /

contraction

  1. had not

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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What made me even sicker was that everyone online already thought they knew who did it, even though law enforcement hadn’t identified a suspect.

I hadn’t paid close attention to Kirk, mostly because he didn’t have a direct connection to Southern California politics.

But Kirk himself hadn’t been opposed to tapping into political frustrations to accuse people on the left of being dangerous: His organization had, for example, launched an entire “watch list” targeting professors, that used as its justification the idea that conservative students needed protection.

From Slate

Soon after, the night watchman at the building was "startled" to find a "large painting" by an interior doorway and had "no idea how it had got there because it hadn't been there when he walked past the same spot earlier that evening", Mr Stott said.

From BBC

She said after they had described Elsie's clothing, a police officer confirmed a child inside the building fitting that description "hadn't made it".

From BBC

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Hadley chesthad one's fill