Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Contraction of should not.
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- verb auxiliary
should not .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But they believe they're telling a smart and talented black woman whose play they love that the word shouldn't be used so many times.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly Michael Giltz 2011
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But they believe they're telling a smart and talented black woman whose play they love that the word shouldn't be used so many times.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Zoe Kazan Pens Play; Glee's Groff Gets Ugly Michael Giltz 2011
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The state's highest court ruled that Alejandrina Cabrera's name shouldn't appear on the March 13 election ballot in San Luis but didn't list a reason for the decision.
Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Ruling Against San Luis City Council Candidate Alejandrina Cabrera The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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That was right after the BCS blithely ignored two of its own unwritten rules - a team must win its conference championship; the title game shouldn't be a rematch of a regular-season game - so Alabama and LSU could meet again in Super Dome.
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That was right after the BCS blithely ignored two of its own unwritten rules - a team must win its conference championship; the title game shouldn't be a rematch of a regular-season game - so Alabama and LSU could meet again in Super Dome.
The Seattle Times 2012
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I slipped in that and said a word I shouldn't have.
NYDN Rss TAYLOR HOM 2012
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The coins shouldn't have been minted, but they were.
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The state's highest court issued its ruling Tuesday, saying Alejandrina Cabrera's name shouldn't appear on the March election ballot in San Luis.
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The coins shouldn't have been minted, but they were.
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"Gingrich is doing it the way you shouldn't, which is a mean, nasty, transparently negative attack on Mitt Romney," says Michael Dennehy, the political director for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign four years ago.
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