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Recent Examples of would-be
Getting New Glenn into service for Amazon should help accelerate deployment of the Amazon Leo satellite constellation, a would-be competitor with SpaceX’s Starlink network.
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Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026
Ford must hope his would-be supporters aren’t renters or don’t read the news.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 27 May 2026
Instead, Paulie’s trusted lieutenants move from person to person, talking with various would-be partners and supplicants, and then go back and whisper in Paulie’s ear.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
Motorists move along the highway below, the same road taken by millions of would-be refugees on their final journey out, through Damascus and Amman.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
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Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026
Ford must hope his would-be supporters aren’t renters or don’t read the news.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 27 May 2026
Instead, Paulie’s trusted lieutenants move from person to person, talking with various would-be partners and supplicants, and then go back and whisper in Paulie’s ear.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
Motorists move along the highway below, the same road taken by millions of would-be refugees on their final journey out, through Damascus and Amman.
—Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for would-be
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The team overachieved this season partly because Mazzulla turned an inexperienced supporting cast into a strength.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Short selling can be an intellectually demanding approach to the market, and many inexperienced traders fall into a trap, lured by overvaluation and hype.—
David Capablanca,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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That stands in contrast to the Nasdaq, which has already moved to fast-track SpaceX's inclusion in the Nasdaq 100 index, leading to concerns that new retail investors could become the cash cow of exit liquidity for legacy SpaceX shareholders.—
Katie Foley,
CNBC,
5 June 2026
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With Fairfield High’s graduation set to be held Friday, community members started a petition calling for it to be moved to a new location.—
Seamus Bozeman
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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The audacity of such a mission, wrapping so many untried things into a single flight, meant Artemis III would not have launched for at least two more years, and probably more like three, four, or more.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
14 Mar. 2026
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Originally hesitant about using the relatively untried medium of radio in this way, The King was reassured by a visit to the BBC in the summer of 1932 and agreed to take part.—
Stephanie Petit,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
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But an unlikely story is bubbling up in the nation as Chinese fans cheer on unlikely amateur soccer players – from delivery drivers to villagers – now playing in packed stadiums back home in a rare sign, some believe, that the Beautiful Game may finally be taking root in the nation.—
Reagan Yip,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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For his senior season and recognition as a top draft prospect, Emerson was named a semifinalist for the 2026 Golden Spikes Award, which is given to the nation’s top amateur baseball player.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2026
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Founders who think high spending on technology is a badge of success recall those from the dot-com era, when unseasoned executives ignored business basics, many even arguing that profits were no longer important.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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And yet, to get caught up in what Jódar might one day be would risk missing the show that this unseasoned version of him is putting on.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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After his beginning years in the cafe, Trygar has since moved to the maintenance department and has been responsible for taking care some of Kennywood's iconic rides like the Racer, the Log Jammer, and the Merry Go Round.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
7 May 2026
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The band joins Yellowcard for the Up Up Down Down Tour, a 27-date spring outing with Plain White T’s beginning May 6 in Atlanta and concluding June 20 in Springfield, Massachusetts.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
21 Feb. 2026
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Road accidents kill thousands in Bangladesh every year, due to a combination of poor road conditions, unskilled driving and inadequate oversight of traffic rules.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
25 May 2026
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In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.—
Lee Hutchinson,
ArsTechnica,
19 May 2026
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But that compact is fragile and untested, and aspiring for a more equitable city will require us to expel the bad blood of the Eighties.—
Kevin Lozano,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Advocates say this could raise up to $500 million per year—assuming the untested tax does not prompt businesses to relocate to Maryland and Virginia.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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