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Discover Ludwig"shouldn't have accepted" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a conditional statement that expresses regret or disapproval about a past action (accepting) that was not a good idea. It can also convey a sense of responsibility for the consequences of that action. Example: I shouldn't have accepted that job offer without fully researching the company first. Now I'm stuck in a toxic work environment.
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Maybe I shouldn't have accepted the watch from the oil-company executive who attends my church in the first place.
He added that if Mr. Holtzman "thought the amount he received was unfair he shouldn't have accepted it".
"If I were Icahn's private lawyer, I would tell him that he shouldn't have accepted the special-adviser title," he said.
This law is going to happen, and the best thing to do is just shut up and accept it, really, which is probably why I shouldn't have accepted this interview.
He repeated the points that have been made for the last five days - that this was the wrong moment, that it was calculated to exacerbate western aggression against the Muslim world, that Rushdie shouldn't have accepted it.
I can normally tell the trolls from the satire and the genuinely ignorant, but after scrolling through 24 hours of social media screeching about how I "stole an award from a real woman", I'm not so sure: there seemed to be a consensus among the discontented that I shouldn't have accepted it.
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Some say he should not have accepted the ESPN invitation.
"He should not have accepted the money himself.
I should not have accepted the flight but I had no choice".
The deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce derided Lambie in the House of Representatives and said Labor should not have accepted her proposal.
A commissioner, J. Thomas Rosch, filed a dissenting statement because he said the commission should not have accepted Google's denial of liability, which he called "inexplicable".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com