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English word

could

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /kəd/US /kəd/
modal verb

used as the past tense of ‘can’

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the only way to get involved with the internet in '95 that I could think of was to start a company,

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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