mightn't
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Clement Cuthbertson, a DUP councillor for Mid Ulster, said the figures "mightn't be considered that surprising given that Mid Ulster has so many rural roads and important trunk roads that constantly need maintenance".
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
“There mightn’t be immediate impact,” the 52-year-old said last week as he oversaw workers baking bread in his shop in Cairo, “but if they didn’t find a solution soonest, things would be very difficult.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Nothing's all black, but then nothing's all white How do you say it will all be all right When you know that it mightn't be true?
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
I mightn’t have thought so if not for the last paragraph, which, like a sudden break in the weather, astonishes with the force of its unexpected beauty.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
I should be an inconvenience at Joe’s; I was not expected, and my bed would not be ready; I should be too far from Miss Havisham’s, and she was exacting and mightn’t like it.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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