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Recent Examples of would-be
So some would-be homeowners are also feeling the pain in their paychecks—or lack thereof.
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Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
But would-be applicants need to be convinced that at the Padres’ managerial office, there’s not a turnstile in place of a door.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
At the same time, many sellers are not accommodating the concerns of would-be buyers, who have become pickier and are seeking more concessions.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Jacksonville’s opportunistic defense recorded yet another takeaway — this time at the goal line as linebacker Devin Lloyd intercepted a would-be Patrick Mahomes touchdown pass and took it 99 yards to the house, giving Jacksonville a 21-14 lead — to increase their league-high tally to 14.
—Mike Jones, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
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Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
But would-be applicants need to be convinced that at the Padres’ managerial office, there’s not a turnstile in place of a door.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
At the same time, many sellers are not accommodating the concerns of would-be buyers, who have become pickier and are seeking more concessions.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Jacksonville’s opportunistic defense recorded yet another takeaway — this time at the goal line as linebacker Devin Lloyd intercepted a would-be Patrick Mahomes touchdown pass and took it 99 yards to the house, giving Jacksonville a 21-14 lead — to increase their league-high tally to 14.
—Mike Jones, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for would-be
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The inexperienced head coach has sensibly made only minor tweaks since taking over, sticking with the compact, direct football that has served Brentford so well.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Scaloni, whose team finished in first place in South American World Cup qualifying, was using Friday’s match, and the Tuesday match against Puerto Rico at Chase Stadium, to integrate some of the younger and inexperienced players on the roster.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
11 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, aging aircraft fleets and a wave of retirements have created an urgent demand for new technicians.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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In this new study featuring more than 1,000 participants at 244 sites in 17 countries, patients received either enzalutamide plus leuprolide (the combination group), leuprolide (the leuprolide-alone group), or enzalutamide monotherapy (the monotherapy group).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Oct. 2025
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And finding a new commissioner would not only take months but may leave the West with an untried, inexperienced leader.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
AZCentral.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Since the election, Reform has tried to refashion itself from a protest vote party to one that could govern – untried and inexperienced, but ready to step in if the Labour Party buckles under its own blunders, and the once-mighty Conservatives drift further into political irrelevance.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
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Investors cheered the improbable rise of the amateur heavy metal drummer and hard-line conservative, who’s expected to increase defense spending, cut taxes, and revive Japan’s nuclear power industry.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Food made by white people is often associated with and critiqued for being bland and unseasoned.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Unsalted and unseasoned pasta cooking water can be cooled and used to water plants.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
16 Aug. 2025
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Next week, Grizzly Bear headline the first show in a five-night run at New York’s Brooklyn Steel, the beginning leg of their first tour in six years.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
10 Oct. 2025
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A lot of the dialogue existed and the crew had the beginning demos of the songs to work with.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The network also reported female health workers saying that their newer colleagues were likely to be unskilled women who came from Taliban-loyal families.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, the rest of the roster is too big and unskilled, a downstream consequence of buying into the fiction that Davis is a power forward.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Leading rushers Waymond Jordan and Eli Sanders will be sidelined Saturday due to injuries, leaving a largely untested group of backs to take the field.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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But the potential catastrophe of famine, brought about by an untested planet-wide experiment to only slightly increase our electrical production capacity, seems like a cost-heavy, benefit-light endeavor.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
15 Oct. 2025
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