Synonyms for might-have-been
might-have-been

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1. might-have-beennoun

   Synonyms:
   could-have-been

2. might-have-beennoun

   Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved.

   Synonyms:
   could-have-been

Princeton's WordNet

1. might-have-beennoun

   an event that could have occurred but never did

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1. • Event

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1. Ogden Nash:

   Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.

2. Paul Beck:

   There might have been a different dynamic had there only been one opponent and that opponent had been able to get the Trump endorsement. But the fact that it was divided, I think probably, in a way, influenced what Donald Trump was going to do, one could imagine in a perfect Trumpian world, he would've wanted to endorse whoever DeWine's opponent was. But then he's looking at the polls, and he's saying, United States know, if I were to endorse somebody, United States's not going to pull them over the top.

3. Daunte Wrights:

   And people of color continue to experience brutality and being pepper-sprayed, even killed at the hands of law enforcement, and it's got to stop, one of the things I am looking into is whether there might have been a pattern of misconduct -- of police misconduct, either by these officers specifically or more broadly within the department.

4. Hillary Clinton:

   I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two, i did it for convenience, and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have two devices from the very beginning.

5. Phil Bell:

   Because these things are exhumed by opal miners, lots of other information is often lost, like their exact position in the mine and any other fossils that were found around it, we know of plenty of cases where a miner has brought up a handful of bones from a single animal. The rest of the thing might have been destroyed in the mining process or sitting in a waste pile at the bottom of the mine.