wouldn't

American

[wood-nt] / ˈwʊd nt /

contraction of would not:

I wouldn't ask her.

wouldn't British

/ ˈwʊdənt /

contraction

would not

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wouldn't Idioms

More idioms and phrases containing wouldn't

butter wouldn't melt
caught dead, wouldn't be
not
not (wouldn't) lift a finger

Usage

See contraction.

Example Sentences

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Blue Owl Capital said it wouldn’t back Oracle’s $10 billion data center for OpenAI.

From Barron's

Inside the halls of the conference, AI celebrities who wouldn’t be recognized anywhere else in the world couldn’t walk around NeurIPS without being mobbed.

From The Wall Street Journal

Sarandos’s overall support for Chappelle was a signal to talent that the company wouldn’t back down in the face of public pressure and was prepared to be a home for content that appealed to a range of viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nor was he accompanied by an interpreter: He had been told that Russia’s president wouldn’t allow him to bring another person into the meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal

One of the UK's top flu scientists, Prof Nicola Lewis, the director of the World Influenza Centre at the Francis Crick Institute, said the virus was "not particularly unusual" and that she saw "no evidence" the virus was "particularly different" and superflu "wouldn't be my description".

From BBC

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