who'd

[ hood ]

1. contraction of who would:

   Who'd have thought it!

who'd

/ huːd /

contraction of

1. who had or who would

Usage Note

See contraction.

Example Sentences

Rather than arresting her attacker, Israeli soldiers, who’d accompanied settlers to the site, just told him to move on.

From BBC

“Who’d have ever thought that a young man from South Dakota, grew up in a place called Darkside, would be on a big screen?” the former Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe law enforcement officer said during his speech, choking up.

From Los Angeles Times

It was a pervasive shift in left-leaning America’s orientation toward politics—“protest is the new brunch”—and a mass awakening of people who’d suddenly come to the realization that they couldn’t just sit by and allow the arc of the moral universe to take care of itself.

From Slate

By 2020, the chair of the Maine Democratic Party was a woman who’d never done anything political but vote until she attended a local Women’s March.

From Slate

Decter played his compositions for Sloan, who’d then sing them with him.

From Los Angeles Times