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Note: These are only a handful of many aborted could-be classics.

Jerry Brown, California's once and could-be future governor, is a master of reinvention, just like the pop icon.

These are (Paul says) lima beans Munchausen, and here we have could-be asparagus.

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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to could be, such as: perchance, perhaps, as it may be, can be, conceivable, and conceivably.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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