A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
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Throughout her life, she summered in Maine near Franklin Roosevelt, yet she was among those drawn to “settlement houses.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
“This is year three of migration, where the virus seems to be coming back down” via birds who summered in the Arctic and swapped viruses, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024
Grubauer said he was the only Kraken player who stuck around home base all offseason, with its top-of-the-line facilities, strength coaches and medical staff who aren’t available to him if he summered at home.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Driscoll and her husband summered on the New Jersey shore, in Point Pleasant, until he retired in 1930.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
“At least one new family has built a hedge to avoid people seeing them as they pass by,” said Wade Green, seventy- two, who has summered here for years.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
