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be could
verb
Simple past tense of can
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It couldn't be, could it?
Mars, as polished and incessantly chirpy as he may be, could get people to tune in.
Politically, the pressure on Cameron – and on his successor, whoever that may be – could be extreme.
— weapons of mass destruction — "threat, the question would be, Could Saddam Hussein have survived that?
"Ending this depression," he writes, "should be, could be, almost incredibly easy.
There was nowhere else I wanted to be, could have imagined being.
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Few breaks have gone the Jets' way this season, and this break -- small as it might be -- could not have come at a worse moment.
They came so brides- and grooms-to-be could talk of wedding bells that never rang.
But he did so with the sort of inquisitiveness and observational power that I, as a young doctor-to-be, could not help but want to emulate.
Back in the day, brides-to-be could easily talk about their silver pattern just as much as their dress.
Could-be, could-be calls Drab Gray.
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