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  • past participle of have.
  • past tense form of have.
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had

[had] / hæd /


ADJECTIVE
owned
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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That forced me to re-examine situations I had already lived through — cases where things didn’t go the way they were “supposed” to go, even when clients thought they had done everything right on paper.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Not long after the stroke, in April 2025, Walter announced that he had formed TWG Global, the holding company, with $40 billion in assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

“Rather than erase those histories and make the campus feel as though it had always been a singular space, we wanted the landscape to celebrate them.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Clarke said that in pursuing his claim, Winehouse had "deliberately turned this case into large-scale and expensive litigation, in circumstances calculated to exert commercial pressure on the defendants to settle on his terms".

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

The priest also explains that “he indicated many instances in which he had tried to find out what she was reading and she had refused to show him the title of the book.”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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