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you'd

[ yood; unstressed yood, yuhd ]

  1. contraction of you had:

    Sorry we missed you—you'd already left by the time we arrived.

  2. contraction of you would:

    You'd be foolish to pass up such an offer.



you'd

/ jʊd; juːd /

contraction of

  1. you had or you 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
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"She'd be shouting from the line, you'd hear her above everybody else," she tells us.

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Trump responded, “We are the federal law” He added: “You’d better comply. ... Otherwise, you’re not getting any federal funding.”

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’s most amazing about Villarreal’s apartment is that you’d never know she recently moved in.

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