It was merely a passing glimpse of a might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heavenly Twins] Reference

Iceland is a sobering might-have-been for the Greeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro's Tribulations] Reference

"He died -" Joan allowed the might-have-been full sway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of a Deathtime]

Rick - Good point about the Cinque Ports as a might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picts (or Cruithne, or Albans): What's in a name?] Reference

Different choices allow them to see the work that might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [2/27/05 - 3/6/05] Reference

She covered her mouth to stifle the unexpected cry for the might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul of the Fire]

How many might-have-been aboted babies have you adopted in your life so far?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typical hypocrisy from anti-choice politicians on the Hill] Reference

I saw our paths crossing and recrossing, the myriad paths of might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

This, it seems to me, is the greatest might-have-been of all military history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Might-Have-Been of All] Reference

Dennis wailed the age-old cry of the might-have-been, the lament of those that never quite succeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

But it is not our province to speculate in the rosy fields of "might-have-been," but to record facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

If so, a duo that could have created so much, and yet created so little, is just another might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference

From what I gather, this has sort of lurked around in the mists of Wagner recordings as a might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keilberth Ring] Reference

Rivière could see that Elaine was reading into every sentence the might-have-been of her own wrecked life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swirling Waters] Reference

Saturation for counterfactuals: the intense richness of the real, the faded ethereal touch of the might-have-been?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Fiction 8] Reference

She dragged herself to her feet, preferring physical pain to the immaterial talons of memories and might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Dancer]

In some cases, a might-have-been can even be viewed, as this one once was, by Masters Wells, Verne, and Sigurdsson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon’s Apprentice] Reference

So on this anniversary day, allow me to recall Colbert's tentative entry into the 2008 race and what might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Mitchell: Obama Won Last Year Only Because Stephen Colbert Dropped Out!] Reference

He dragged his mind back from the worlds of might-have-been to confront the appalling and still-unimaginable reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind from The Sun]

So on this anniversary day, allow me to recall Colbert\'s tentative entry into the 2008 race and what might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Mitchell: Obama Won Last Year Only Because Stephen Colbert Dropped Out!] Reference

So to answer your question, yes—there are zero points in time wherein we could have changed a might-have-been to an is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon’s Apprentice] Reference

I can see the grim '90s revamp now, in some might-have-been world where Jigsaw became a permanent fixture in Harvey's line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jigsaw Puzzled (Part 2)] Reference

The woodman who came so near causing a catastrophe was, I believe, infinitely more frightened than his might-have-been victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference

There are parallel universes, might-have-been worlds, full of lost works, and no doubt some of them would have been masterpieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wishes of the Dead] Reference

For the Creation side, it is enough if they can come up with a vaguely plausible “could-have-been, might-have-been” scenario.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution Videos and More - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Budd] Reference

He to the great might-have-been upsoaring, sublime and ideal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

His life to-day is a mean parody upon an easily realizable might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

A far lesser-known might-have-been scenario involved Justice Stephen Breyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

You must be very happy .... nostalgic for what might-have-been in Venezuela in 2002?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

She ceased to regret that snug might-have-been, little, grocery business in a country town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

In the parochial garden the pea is one to tease us always with its might-be and might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference

His works are after all only the disjecta membra poetae; full of hints of a great might-have-been.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference

“We didn’t come out here just to play might-have-been.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kahawa]

What an epitaph for the greatest might-have-been in English literature: "Christopher.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke] Reference

"might-have-been" would never be, but he knew that there was peace in that little breast at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference