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- verb
might have ; used to express the possibility of something occurring in the past as condition to another non-occurring past event. - verb Used to express uncertainty about a past event.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you were aiming for the new "wassup", an actual word might've helped.
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The front cover features a blurb by Conan O'Brien, who you might've heard of.
'Paper Doll Orgy' Ezra Klein 2011
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And, "amazingly" there might've been only about three dunks the whole night.
Dave Hollander: Not Where "Amazing" Happened, But Better Dave Hollander 2011
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That's how the world might've seen it, but it came after many, many, many, many years of songwriting.
Mike Ragogna: Stevie Nicks' "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)," Plus Chatting With Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, Jackie DeShannon and Shelby Lynne Mike Ragogna 2011
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And, "amazingly" there might've been only about three dunks the whole night.
Dave Hollander: Not Where "Amazing" Happened, But Better Dave Hollander 2011
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"It's very much grounded in the accurate record that one imagines might've been possible."
A Land Before Time: Can Terra Nova's Travelers Survive Dinosaurs, Change the Future? 2011
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I knew intellectually that women's breasts were designed for this natural purpose, of course, but the sight of this noisy, foreign apparatus mechanically sucking on my wife's breasts was so unexpected, so incongruous, that she might've been an abductee of aliens on a mission to extract Earthling female specimens before worm-holing back to their star system.
Len Filppu: Parental Survival Tip # 1: Develop Mirth at Birth Len Filppu 2011
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And I thought to myself, 'Hey, you know, I think I might've stumbled onto something.'
The Rest of the New Jersey Tunnel Story Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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One can imagine how someone like satirist Harry Shearer might've handled the opportunity.
Stuart Connelly: What About The Wisdom? The View & Bill O'Reilly Stuart Connelly 2010
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Turned out the doctor was a recovering sex addict himself who believed he might've raped his girl during an alcoholic blackout when she was 16.
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