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would have ; indicating a non-occurring action or state that wasconditional on another non-occurring event in the past.
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Examples
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According to league source, they told Smith that he wouldn't necessarily have to begin the season on the Physically Unable to Perform PUP list - a designation that would've cost him at least the first six weeks of the season.
NY Daily News 2011
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No athlete was safe, from Tiger Woods (if he'd won the Masters, MacDonald figured, Jim Nantz's call would've been "a whoremonger no more!" to Lamar Odom (his reality show with wife Khloe Kardashian is "a clever combination of basketball and a bunch of s---."
Cheers & Jeers: Norm MacDonald Shoots and Scores on Sports Show 2011
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As I hear it, he's saying that many people were encouraged to buy homes who would've been better off renting.
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If it weren't for Hispanics and blacks, Florida would've had a truly disastrous decade, Frey says.
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As I hear it, he's saying that many people were encouraged to buy homes who would've been better off renting.
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Doing so would've meant vilifying Wall Street, and they needed the market to stabilize.
Ezra Klein interviews ex-union president Andy Stern about the fight in Wisconsin 2011
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He would've liked to push his advantage a little more but she picked him up over her head and threw him against the opposite wall which cleared the fight for the time.
Screaming Woman - Excerpt Jason W. Stuart 2011
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The whole thing was designed to help them, get the information out because they would've been hounded, but then try and fix it — which they both want to do.
Bachelor Host: Brad and Emily Have a Tough Road Ahead, But Want to Make it Work 2011
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If public-sector unions had never been founded, labor would've been much weaker in the 20th century.
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As I hear it, he's saying that many people were encouraged to buy homes who would've been better off renting.
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