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Definition of could-be in English: could-beadjectiveˈkʊdbi attributive Able to be or become; possible. his new could-be love interest Example sentencesExamples - Executives at competing networks have watched their handling of the could-be candidates with some astonishment.
- Will your team take a risk on this could-be superstar playmaker who surely will be a project and might never make it at all?
- When he was a teenager, he was inseparable from his best friend and could-be lover, Silvy.
- I had a couple of disasters, but I came out better than if I was retiring today and all these would-be, could-be fund managers were in charge of my money.
- A group of young men arrived all dressed to the nines with those sort of messed-up, could-be-70s haircuts.
- He collects stories, from passengers, of could-be weapons - scissors, nail files - that slipped through security.
- Reality is Bowie's umpteenth record and while it doesn't even come close to capturing the energy or sexiness of his early works, there are some could-be classics on this all-over-the-map release.
- My first idea wasn't that great since it was, in a sense, excluding a group of could-be customers.
Synonyms potential, prospective, likely, probable, would-be, aspiring
nounˈkʊdbi informal A potential candidate for a job or situation. Example sentencesExamples - Many of those would remain could-bes if it were not for that Jupiterian good luck that so often turns things around at the eleventh hour.
- That will leave a heap of disappointed nobodies, has beens, could-bes and wannabes on the ground.
- They'd had a couple of "could-bes" or "maybes" but nothing definite.
- Military planners work with "scenarios," rather than scenes, political could-bes and military what-ifs that become the basis for campaign plans.
- The world's full of would bes, could bes, might bes... how many people do you know who'll ever be anything more than that?
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