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Example sentences for: would-be

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And during the last 10 years, some lower courts have upheld bans on public display of sexually explicit material that's not technically "obscene" on the grounds that the law may shield children even if this keeps, say, a would-be muralist from communicating to adults.
Not surprisingly, Langleben got a lot of press after he announced his results, and his experiment led directly to speculation that we might eventually see fMRIs installed at airports, scanning the brains of would-be terrorists trying to deceive security screeners, or in courtrooms, catching perjurers red-handed (or perhaps red–anterior-cingulate-gyrused?)
When the balloonist yells perfectly reasonable instructions to his would-be helpers in the field, they all ignore him because he appears incompetent.
The News adds that in the pilot aptitude section of the written test for pilot trainees, Bush scored "in the 25 th percentile, the lowest allowed for would-be fliers."
Would-be Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is a pale imitation of his father, argues the cover profile.