Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Our Chris Smith’s main worry is that his kindly alternate dimension father and brother will find out that he killed his doppelganger in an act of self-defense; Earth X Peacemaker would have murdered him otherwise.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2025
She said Mr Cole said to her "I don't know why they think I could have murdered Logan" after her colleague left the room.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2022
At the center Burke’s latest novel is a young woman called Hope Miller who might have murdered a man before losing her memory in a car accident.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2022
If this is where he sets the bar, I’m starting to wonder if the number one Pomeranian on the ’gram, whom he does describe as violent, might actually have murdered several people.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2020
Challcochima may not have murdered Thupa Wallpa, but he certainly used the death to try to persuade Pizarro that the next Inka should be one of Atawallpa’s sons, not anyone associated with Washkar.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
