They'd

//ðeɪd// contraction

contraction ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Contraction
  1. 1
    They had. contraction
  2. 2
    They would. contraction

    "“Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District."

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"They said they'd make the boarding announcement 20 minutes before takeoff."

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