could-be

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Until then, marriage was only theoretical - full of hopeful what-if and could-be scenarios.

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  • NIKOORSINI Brilliant description of a could-be product. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • The addition of job classes to the old-school gameplay is a welcome one; each job has its own special attack (usually some kind of area effect, though there are projectile-based ones too) and by munching on a bento lunch provided by Gen's could-be girlfriend Kanna, you can change classes once per level. —  AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
  • But the Web offers newsrooms thousands of readers, and could-be readers, who've been writing hyperlinks into stories for years. —  OJR
  • Presumably, if a request-satiation sequence includes a could-be-miracle, it counts (or could count) as evidence for a miracle (or at least, a providential intervention) having occurred to the extent that the event could have been a miracle (i.e., in proportion to the probability that a could-be-miracle was a miracle). —  The Prosblogion
  • Even so, the relative paucity of RSSs, could-be-miracles, and obvious miracles in the world as I see it seems to be strong reason to doubt whether it really is the case that God will give good gifts to those who ask him. —  The Prosblogion
 

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