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Sports Illustrated on MSN: How lottery reform could impact the Boston Celtics' ability to do business

How lottery reform could impact the Boston Celtics' ability to do business

NBC New York: How U.S.-Israeli attacks in Iran could impact gas and airline prices at home

How U.S.-Israeli attacks in Iran could impact gas and airline prices at home

CBS News: 3 ways falling mortgage rates could impact the housing market (and homebuyers)

3 ways falling mortgage rates could impact the housing market (and homebuyers)

The National Law Review: How a Government Shutdown Could Impact Energy Commodity Prices and Valuations

New York Post: Here’s how Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could impact your tax refunds in April

Here’s how Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could impact your tax refunds in April

We use could to ask for permission. Could is more formal and polite than can: Could I ask you a personal question?

The meaning of COULD is —used in auxiliary function in the past, in the past conditional, and as an alternative to can suggesting less force or certainty or as a polite form in the present. How to use could in a sentence.

Learn about the modal verbs can and could and do the exercises to practise using them.

You use could to talk about a possibility, ability, or opportunity that depends on other conditions. Their hope was that a new and better East Germany could be born.