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Modals expressing present and future willingness / unwillingness

Will can express insistence/willingness and won't refusal/unwillingness in the present.

"I'll go anyway!"
"You won't!"
"Yes, I will!"
"I won't do it!"
"Yes, you will!"

Couldn't can express unwillingness.

I couldn't lie to you.
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