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Recent Examples of would-be
Until the field becomes clearer, political media, would-be campaign contributors and California voters will just have to twiddle their thumbs.
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
The 6-foot-4, 247-pound outside linebacker then cradled the rock in his right arm, turned upfield like a receiver, and flashed right past a would-be Raiders tackler on a 23-yard return.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
The complaint alleges that Hermantown has known since at least September 2024 that the site’s would-be developer hoped to construct a data center facility.
—Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
The regulatory uncertainty had led some would-be visitors to conclude they aren’t allowed to rent on Nantucket, said Brian Borgeson, the owner of a charter fishing business who sponsored the measure for lenient rules.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
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Dan Walters, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
The 6-foot-4, 247-pound outside linebacker then cradled the rock in his right arm, turned upfield like a receiver, and flashed right past a would-be Raiders tackler on a 23-yard return.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
The complaint alleges that Hermantown has known since at least September 2024 that the site’s would-be developer hoped to construct a data center facility.
—Peter Passi, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
The regulatory uncertainty had led some would-be visitors to conclude they aren’t allowed to rent on Nantucket, said Brian Borgeson, the owner of a charter fishing business who sponsored the measure for lenient rules.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for would-be
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Jokic didn’t overtake Jamal Murray as Denver’s leading scorer until their seventh game of the season, after a 33-point performance Wednesday against a Miami Heat frontcourt that was woefully undersized and inexperienced the instant Bam Adebayo exited with a foot injury.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Henderson has struggled in that role as a rookie, and Jennings is inexperienced at the pro level.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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The interdisciplinary approach brought the duke’s life and death to a stunning clarity — indicating how analyses can shed new light on age-old mysteries, even murders.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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While earning a master's degree in exercise and coaching science at University College Dublin, she was introduced to CrossFit and discovered a new kind of challenge with its emphasis on versatility and constant adaptation.—
NWA Democrat-Gazette,
Arkansas Online,
10 Nov. 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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Elsewhere, Chalamet and Okonma’s characters try their hand at sports gambling, cleaning up cash in an amateur tournament thanks to Marty’s talents.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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The competition among amateur teenagers was ruthless.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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The California Highway Patrol, in an investigative report recently released to the victims’ families, attributed the crash to excessive speed by an unseasoned driver.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
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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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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Ever the fighter, Cuomo refused to drop out of the mayoral race after losing the primary, electing to run as a third party candidate in the hopes of rallying support from voters who saw Mamdani as too untested and too far left to govern effectively.—
Alex J. Rouhandeh,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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In California, lawmakers set testing and tracking requirements of rape kits after it was learned that many untested kits had been left on the shelves of police and sheriff’s offices for years.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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