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How to use the word Couldn in a Sentence?

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What destroys a man is often within his sight; if he couldn't see it, he wouldn't be tempted to touch it. Therefore, wisdom lies not only in avoiding what's harmful but also in guarding one's eyes against the allure of destruction.

– Christen Kuikoua

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9 days ago

The first Nintendo tape cartridge I tried was Ghosts N Goblins. As soon as the game began, I was immediately ambushed by zombies. I'd jump around aimlessly, tossing javelins, but was I'm a skeleton. Dead. It was over so quick, I couldn't even mentally process what just happened.

– James Rolfe

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1 month ago

My world went dark and strangely quiet. from the waist down, I could feel the water. I could feel I was wet in the river. From my waist up, it was different. I was warm, and it wasn’t wet like the river, but it wasn’t dry either. And it was just incredible pressure on my lower back. I tried to move around; I couldn’t.

– Paul Templer

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1 year ago

2019 was a marvelous year in China. My family was able to visit and experience it. Then Covid happened, (At one point) I hadn’t seen my family for a year and the rules were you couldn’t bring them in while the borders were closed. A lot of footballers left because of that.

– Roberto Siucho

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1 year ago

I mean, Mr. Church was pretty careful in what he could say and what he couldn’t say. And the thing that he didn’t say is, ‘If your clients continue to make referrals you don’t have to worry that they could face enforcement action,’ right? He didn’t say that, perhaps (we) get to a point where the emergency is gone. But right now, I still have a situation where I have doctors who need to tell patients what their options are and are not sure if they can do a complete, accurate and fair job of doing that without facing personal risk.

– Peter Neiman

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1 year ago

The only victims this shooter was able to get to were victims that were stuck in some sort of open area or hallway, several were able to evacuate safely. The ones that couldn’t do that safely did exactly what they were taught and trained to do.

– Brink Fidler

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1 year ago

If you think back to the original Voyager pictures of Uranus, it was just kind of a pale blue ball with nothing on it. You didn’t see clouds, you didn’t see haze, you didn’t see anything … so there was a polar cap then, but we couldn’t see it, what we’ve been watching over time (using Hubble), is this buildup of this high-altitude haze in the atmosphere, and the exact purpose or the exact mechanism behind it, we don’t know, that’s one of the things we’re studying.

– Amy Simon

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1 year ago

We couldn’t ignore that kind of insight, instead of rejecting it, we decided to embrace it.

– Mauro Porcini

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1 year ago

I got accepted into schools that I wanted to go to, but I couldn’t afford to go to them because papa died.

– Joshua Fletcher

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1 year ago

It sure is nice to be at the right place at the right time, i was very fortunate to get into the semiconductor industry in its infancy. And I had an opportunity to grow from the time where we couldn’t make a single silicon transistor to the time where we put 1.7 billion of them on one chip! It’s been a phenomenal ride.

– Gordon Moore

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1 year ago

When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

– Tracey Lomax

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1 year ago

Pai Lin arrived at our sanctuary in 2006 after working in the Thai tourism industry, she was given up by her previous owner who felt that she was too slow and always in pain and couldn’t work well anymore.

– Edwin Wiek

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1 year ago

A default would be a catastrophic blow to the already fragile economy, the timing couldn’t be worse for the economy, as even before the specter of a debt limit breach many CEOs and economists believe a recession is likely this year.

– Mark Zandi

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1 year ago

I thought it was a joke, i couldn’t believe the person that called me. I kept telling them they have to be kidding. When I realized he wasn’t, I literally broke down crying.

– Jack Carter

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1 year ago

He (Perry) lost this fight in regular session, and even after they broke the rules he and his allies lost again in front of the entire country last night, they tried every trick in the book, blocking testimony from the very women whose lives would be affected, voting in the middle of the night, shutting down the debate — they couldn’t get this done because Texans would not let them.

– Cecile Richards

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1 year ago

I was just miserable. I was trying to cough up stuff, I couldn’t, my eyes were all runny and watery.

– Jim Denes

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1 year ago

Early on, we realized that we were building things in Afghanistan that the Afghans didn’t need, didn’t want, didn’t even know they were getting and couldn’t sustain, we have to make certain we go into Ukraine and listen to the Ukrainians on what they need, what they want, what they can sustain.

– John Sopko

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1 year ago

And I know, I remember acutely that the child care on the base was a six-month waiting list, i couldn’t figure out how to make ends meet.

– Chrissy Houlahan

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1 year ago

People can call me ugly or stupid and I’m like, Whatever. But these people get detailed, they write paragraphs that are so specific and mean. I would constantly be crying. I constantly had anxiety. I couldn’t do it anymore. It was a waste of my time.

– Selena Gomez

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1 year ago

In order to prosecute a case, you have to have credible evidence, either tangible witnesses, and in this case, there was no credible evidence of any wrongdoing, joel Greenberg was somebody who (you) couldn’t put on the witness stand, as a prosecutor. I believe these women; none of them believed they were victims of any crime.

– Attorney Tim Jansen

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1 year ago

We noticed that the year on it was ’16. So we thought it was 2016, then we noticed that the stamp was a King rather than a Queen, so we felt that it couldn’t have been 2016.

– Finlay Glen

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1 year ago

Then we noticed that the stamp was a King rather than a Queen, so we felt that it couldn’t have been 2016.

– Finlay Glen

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1 year ago

I couldn’t believe what I was looking at, I had to do a double take, i have seen a few smaller prints when out with friends, but nothing like this. I can no longer say that ‘archaeologists don’t do dinosaurs.’.

– Marie Woods

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1 year ago

Unfortunately, during the earthquake, she died right there and then. She didn’t have a chance of survival. with my own effort, with my own means, I reached her. I couldn’t ask anyone [for help], because there are a lot of people under the rubble.

– Mesut Hancer

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1 year ago

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