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would've

contraction would have; indicating a non-occurring action or state that was conditional on another non-occurring event in the past.

Usage examples of "would've".

I ran an energy calc on the RDX, and it seems to me that if he had used a third of his load on each car, the damage would've been much greater than it is here.

If she was working this bomb in a call-out, she would be in the armor and would've set up the de-armer and blown the bomb apart from the safety of the Suburban sixty yards away.

Russell knew about Walter Sullivan's odd viewing habits from the mirror and chair, but then again, for the assignations he didn't know about, didn't get to watch, who knew what his reaction would've been?

I have been there with him on several occasions, have seen the autistic at first hand, and am not sure I would've believed what Garin was telling me if I hadn't seen some of it for myself.

If it didn't want us to make the best of that format, it would've just told you to shut up and would've blabbered at you from a burning bush!

Not in the form of information, such as her real name, or the story of how she had come to be aboard Ree Duptom's shipThat would've been too easy, Neelah thought wrylybut as an ability, the skill and craft necessary to hack through the coded locks that Boba Fett had installed on this ship's computers when he had transferred his own data files over from his Slave I.

Only a driver as able as Sergeant Tranter would've kept from bogging or simply sinking out of sight in this soft spot, and there were bloody few drivers that good.

Sharina smiled also, though she was glad the king hadn't burst into caroling laughter that would've drawn the attention their appearance did not.

I don't know if the Jolanders or the Langills or the Carons would've heard him if they'd been home or not.

Cree'Ar had produced plants and protozoans that were creating an arable zone, gleefully chowing down on soil toxins that would've killed everything but fefze beetles.

I needed the money, and I would've gone back to my flat two thousand, but she ain't as good at dickering as she thinks she is.

It would've given you lifesupport access: water, food, kept the main compartments aired up.

However, the trouble with Mama was that she asked too many questions, and before long she would've got her daughter to reveal that a reunion with Tony Alvarez was in her future.

No, the woman must bide where she is, in the abbey, where the sisters can care for her properly, where she cannot harm others or cause her retainers to wreak harm, such as she did upon poor Mistress Jenny Bostwick, and would've done to that little boy, had the Irish knight not flatly refused to murder a child on her mad command.

The biological parents would've been given a copy, what you might call a receipt for the child, but there's no way Mr.