who'd

American  

[hood] / hud /

1. contraction of who would:

   Who'd have thought it!

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who'd British  

/ huːd /

contraction

1. who had or who would

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Usage

See contraction.

Example Sentences

The banker, who’d cut his teeth at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, quickly got to work at the bank’s offices on Park Avenue landing new deals for JPMorgan.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

MarketWatch: Looking at everything you’ve accomplished — 500 acquisitions, $50 billion raised, multiple 50-bagger and 200-bagger stocks — what’s your best advice for someone who’d like to be in your position one day?

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

Etienne Brisson from the Human Line Project says this kind of research is limited and that they had heard from people who'd had mental health spirals on these latest models too.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Patrick Wolff, 58, is a Democrat, chartered financial analyst and real estate investor who’d never run for public office but has been active in local San Francisco politics.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Nine—full name: Nine Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety-One—was a member of the Pink family, who’d been running Deadwood Dump since before Clare had become an Usher.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman