would-be
Example Sentences
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That has made the postpandemic housing market one of the most challenging in recent memory and limits the amount of financial maneuvering available to would-be buyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The same technology creating uncertainty for younger workers is also giving would-be entrepreneurs new tools to start and run a business.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Plump yourself on the spoils of would-be gardeners.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The writer described the singularly Los Angeles role of such people, working in this “spread-out, skyscraperless city where perpetual rush hours thwart would-be roving reporters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
This was the hardest thing he’d done in his life, he decided—much harder than fleeing from a would-be poacher in the middle of the night.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
