Meaning & use
Woulda
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An informal, spoken contraction of 'would have', typically used to describe something that did not actually happen.
See it in a sentence
I woulda called you earlier, but my phone died.
She woulda won the race if she hadn't tripped at the last hurdle.
A note on using this word
Common in casual speech and text, often paired with 'coulda' and 'shoulda'; generally avoided in formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
would've
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