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who'd

American  
[hood] / hud /
  1. contraction of who would:

    Who'd have thought it!


who'd British  
/ huːd /

contraction

  1. who had or who would

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Usage

See contraction.

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Some people spoke up, while others, like the man who’d been with Foreman when he was shot, remained silent, Townsend said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

"Didn't know where it had happened, how it had happened, who'd done it. Nothing."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Britain’s Channel Four network found one man who’d been trying, unsuccessfully, to get himself off PIP for three years, saying he was no longer depressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Year: 2018 Compiled by: Slate Staff Of note: Assigned in remembrance of SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg, who’d died that year at the age of 57.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

Angela had used a Post-it note to write down the code for standby passengers who’d received a seat assignment at the last minute, and she’d stuck it to her computer screen.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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