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Significados de would-be en inglés

Person, who wants to be more than he or she is.

Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition.

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Examples for "pseudo"
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Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudo-science and speak up, he said.
The Irish Times
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But the true hunters, too, know that this pseudo-hunting is second best.
The Guardian
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Kinetic and equilibrium data follow pseudo-second order and Langmuir isotherm model, respectively.
Pubmed
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The pseudo-second-order kinetic model provided the best correlation to the experimental results.
Pubmed
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The kinetic studies indicated that the kinetic data followed the pseudo-second-order model.
Pubmed
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It's not that the wannabe PM doesn't believe in equality or opportunity.
The Daily Telegraph
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Text from both the original and wannabe software often makes nonsensical leaps.
Wired
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Every other Republican presidential wannabe is at 4 per cent or lower.
The Irish Times
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All these wannabe writers are all in competition with each other, right?
Pasta Imperfect
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IGNITING a flare is a risk worth taking for a wannabe hooligan.
News.com.au
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Every wanna-be and his dog would start messing around with the university's modem account.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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In the opening scenes, a group of wanna-be-bad boys accost him on a subway and try to grab his hooch.
Reuters
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This puts great strain on her homelife with partner Ciaran, a wanna-be novelist, who spends time daily in friend Katie's bookshop.
The Irish Times
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Bowen fielded occasional phone calls on his voice line from wanna-be hackers trying to pry open the door to the Inner Sanctum.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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Wanna-be hackers had trouble getting into it because of the way X.25 networks were billed.
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
Uso de would-be en inglés
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Would-be marijuana users apply to Health Canada's Office of Cannabis Medical Access.
Wired