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The phrase "had wished" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to express a desire or hope that existed in the past, often in a conditional or hypothetical context. Example: "She had wished for a different outcome, but the results were not in her favor."
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He had wished for clear weather.
The Fulham staff had wished him good luck.
Griffiths and Saracens had wished for something grander this weekend.
(Minnelli had wished to cast Alain Delon in Ford's role).
But the mixing did not go as she had wished.
Winstanley had wished to be inside the lighthouse during the "greatest storm there ever was".
The Giants were on their way to christening their new football palace as they had wished.
The 55th got its chance to fight, just as Lincoln had wished.
It was something he had wished "for a long time", he told the judge.
He did not, as Mary had wished, leave his broad-minded wife.
I had wished many times to re-inhabit my childhood home.
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