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Contraction: Did not possess; Did not include or contain; Did not hold or control; Did not need or require Also: Helping verb used with past participle of another verb. (negative).

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  • He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here.
  • Areva said that financial terms hadn't been discussed.
  • She turned to him and she had an expression he hadn't seen on her face before.
  • "We wanted to make up a word that hadn't been used for anything else, so when someone searched for it we'd be the top link," he says.
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