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Recent Examples of would-be
Ted Wass plays Bobby, a would-be rock star who offers to sell his soul for success.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Those relatively high mortgage rates, along with high home prices and uncertainty about the economy, have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
The Dolphins have a handful of would-be key contributors on IR.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
These included ladies who drink coffee (rather than do lunch), an athlete, a would-be influencer, a new mother, and the like.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Those relatively high mortgage rates, along with high home prices and uncertainty about the economy, have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines.
—Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
The Dolphins have a handful of would-be key contributors on IR.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
These included ladies who drink coffee (rather than do lunch), an athlete, a would-be influencer, a new mother, and the like.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for would-be
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Senior defensive tackle Braxton Fely’s radar is already up at the chance of facing another inexperienced QB.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
30 Oct. 2025
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In doing so, Sonny mentors a talented but inexperienced rookie named Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris) and brings an unconventional style of racing to the track.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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When the humans return, there are only a handful, better clothed, hair braided and combed, new fashions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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In September, Vanity Fair wrote a story detailing new revelations around his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson’s correspondence with the disgraced financier.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 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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Over the past four decades, amateur lawmakers worked across party lines far less often than incumbent lawmakers, both when developing their own legislation and when lending support to other legislators’ proposals.—
Jeff Harden,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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Frankie Piliere, who has been the team’s director of amateur scouting the past two years, now holds the title of vice president of amateur forecasting and player evaluation initiatives.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 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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In 1967, he was sentenced to life in prison — his confession to the 13 strangulations remaining legally untested.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Moreover, doubts over untested Chinese weaponry have evaporated following their successful deployment in Pakistan's confrontation with India in early May, when Chinese J-10C and JF-17 fighter jets shot down up to six Indian jets.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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