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I've searched about it in Google and it says that I've got to use the word used to in a sentence everytime I talk about past habits or anything I used to do in the past.

But I am wondering why this sentence seems incorrect for me. And this is the sentence what I'm talking about

I remember when I was young I would always think that i had super powers because everytime used to expect it would definitely come true and if i didnt used to expect it it wouldn't come true

I suppose theres something wrong about this sentence that I made. I think the word used to doesn't fit the sentence, I think I've got to remove the word used to from the sentence, and replace it with this one

because every time I expect it I would come and when I don't expect it it wouldn't come true

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As you surmise, the sentence is a bit of a mouthful, as though spoken by a child.

And used to meaning that an action or practice was habitual, does not sit happily in the midst of it.

The sentence, with my insertions in brackets, might have been better constructed as:

I remember (that) when I was young I would always think that I had super powers because every time I expected (that something) would definitely come true (it did) and if I didn't expect it, it wouldn't come true.

Your suggested construction, set out below, doesn't work because of some minor mistakes and the verb tense:

"because every time I expect it I would come and when I don't expect it it wouldn't come true".

It needs to be changed slightly to situate the memory in the past:

because every time I expected it, it would come true and when I didn't expect it, it wouldn't come true.

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