Definitions
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- verb Used to show there was possibility of something happening in the past, but it did not happen.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't think any informed person didn't know we could've had Osama.
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Reid could've gotten a little diriter with his comment, but decency prevailed.
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Basically, if somebody could've prevented it, I would sue 'em.
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 12 weeks 2 days ago fifteen foot fly rod and just drop it on top of him. no I'm just kidding I don't know what you could've done, maybe if I had a 9-foot 5-weight, Temple Fork Outfitters fly rod I could go catch him for you, sometimes luck just isn't on your side.
Deeter: Help Me Catch That Scum-Sucking Pig! (And win a fly rod). 2009
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Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 12 weeks 2 days ago fifteen foot fly rod and just drop it on top of him. no I'm just kidding I don't know what you could've done, maybe if I had a 9-foot 5-weight, Temple Fork Outfitters fly rod I could go catch him for you, sometimes luck just isn't on your side.
Deeter: Help Me Catch That Scum-Sucking Pig! (And win a fly rod). 2009
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I actually could've shot 2 does last year on my way back to the ATV, they were standing right next to it.
Camera-Shy Deer? 2009
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Well if you had it four feet off the ground, it very well could've been a deer.
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Well if you had it four feet off the ground, it very well could've been a deer.
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I actually could've shot 2 does last year on my way back to the ATV, they were standing right next to it.
Camera-Shy Deer? 2009
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Basically, if somebody could've prevented it, I would sue 'em.
680969163 commented on the word could've
Yeah, but what about when my pal says: Do think that guy we saw at the cornerstore was an actual giant, like, genetically?" and I say "Could've been." In that case, the event didn't necessarily "not happen," as Wiktionary puts it.
Hmph.
February 28, 2011
bilby commented on the word could've
What was he wearing? I'm interested in giant fashion.
February 28, 2011