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Recent Examples of would-be
Since the 250-pound vehicle qualifies for the FAA’s FAR Part 103 ultralight classification, would-be pilots don’t need a license or certification.
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J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
The rest are a combined 1-15 in the league, and a would-be reckoning at Penn State appears far less daunting now that the Nittany Lions fired their coach and lost their quarterback to injury.
—Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
As a result, social media has been full of would-be flyers complaining about the disruption.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
But even as the winds within Melissa are forecast to become powerful gusts, the atmosphere around the storm is calm, leaving the would-be hurricane meandering through the Caribbean.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
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J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
The rest are a combined 1-15 in the league, and a would-be reckoning at Penn State appears far less daunting now that the Nittany Lions fired their coach and lost their quarterback to injury.
—Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
As a result, social media has been full of would-be flyers complaining about the disruption.
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
But even as the winds within Melissa are forecast to become powerful gusts, the atmosphere around the storm is calm, leaving the would-be hurricane meandering through the Caribbean.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for would-be
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But let’s face it, the Red Wings have looked a bit inexperienced at times so far, too.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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The helmers cycle through a year’s worth of seasons for Zhenya and Anatolij Pilipenko, inexperienced farmers who envisioned a new life for themselves and their two young daughters.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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After being integrated, this system will demonstrate its capabilities in live-fire tests – advancing the Department of War’s effort to evaluate and accelerate new, cost-effective strike capabilities for conventional deterrence.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Fifth Third Bank is also looking to open a new branch on Golden Bear Gateway near Costco in December, O'Meara said.—
Andy Humbles,
Nashville Tennessean,
27 Oct. 2025
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And finding a new commissioner would not only take months but may leave the West with an untried, inexperienced leader.—
Debra Utacia Krol,
AZCentral.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Since the election, Reform has tried to refashion itself from a protest vote party to one that could govern – untried and inexperienced, but ready to step in if the Labour Party buckles under its own blunders, and the once-mighty Conservatives drift further into political irrelevance.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2025
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In 1979, amateur archaeologists in Essex recovered multiple aircraft components, some of which were connected to Lowry’s plane and its crash site.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the film, del Toro flits and hovers between contradictory ideas, with the restlessness of the beautiful butterflies that Elizabeth, an amateur entomologist, likes to study.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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The California Highway Patrol, in an investigative report recently released to the victims’ families, attributed the crash to excessive speed by an unseasoned driver.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Food made by white people is often associated with and critiqued for being bland and unseasoned.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Next week, Grizzly Bear headline the first show in a five-night run at New York’s Brooklyn Steel, the beginning leg of their first tour in six years.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
10 Oct. 2025
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A lot of the dialogue existed and the crew had the beginning demos of the songs to work with.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The network also reported female health workers saying that their newer colleagues were likely to be unskilled women who came from Taliban-loyal families.—
NPR,
NPR,
14 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately, the rest of the roster is too big and unskilled, a downstream consequence of buying into the fiction that Davis is a power forward.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Moreover, doubts over untested Chinese weaponry have evaporated following their successful deployment in Pakistan's confrontation with India in early May, when Chinese J-10C and JF-17 fighter jets shot down up to six Indian jets.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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To send astronauts to and from the moon, Starship will have to refuel in Earth orbit and land upright on the lunar surface—capabilities that are new and untested.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
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