could be

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• Note: These are only a handful of many aborted could-be classics.

  Doomed Passion Projects of Hollywood: The Lost Classics of Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and More | Marlow Stern | March 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Jerry Brown, California's once and could-be future governor, is a master of reinvention, just like the pop icon.

  The Madonna of Politics | Lloyd Grove | March 15, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

• These are (Paul says) lima beans Munchausen, and here we have could-be asparagus.

  West Of The Sun | Edgar Pangborn