could
A1Frequent NGSL-1UK /kəd/US /kəd/
Meaning
modal verb
used as the past tense of ‘can’
“She said that she couldn't come.”
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“I mean, we could be here talking again in a year,”
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“the internet in '95 that I could think”
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“about things with which I could not personally identify.”
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