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Might-have-been

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  1. 1
    Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved.

    "But no more imposing might-have-been was there in Great Britain than the Glasgow & North Western Railway, which was intended to run from Glasgow to Inverness via Glencoe and the Great Glen."

  2. 2
    an event that could have occurred but never did wordnet

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