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Recent Examples of maybe And maybe that makes an important common thread between MU’s narrow losses and this one. Kansas City Star, 8 Nov. 2025 Speaking of the Heat’s bench, Jovic turned in the best performance of the young season and maybe his entire NBA career. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 8 Nov. 2025 The people who could’ve helped, who maybe were genuinely interested, never figured it out. Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025 As folks visit the trolls in North Carolina or maybe in the other locations, Dambo likes to tell people to be mindful of the environment. Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for maybe
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Adverb
  • The 36-year-old's contributions to the Dodgers becoming baseball's first back-to-back champions in a quarter-century likely won't be forgotten for a long time, and perhaps during contract negotiations, will be a present reminder.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The effects were perhaps best seen in New Jersey, a state with a Hispanic population of nearly 22%, when counties with large Latino populations moved to the left following a rightward shift in 2024.
    Halle Troadec, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • Second, the large amplitudes of the gravitational waves needed to generate the events that Weber was claiming a detection of would provide more energy than could possibly cosmically exist in any-and-all forms of radiation combined; the Universe as a whole ruled his interpretation out.
    Big Think, Big Think, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Boston Dynamics couples perception (IMUs, cameras, possibly LiDAR) with these controllers to enable rapid reflexive responses.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
  • That probably stems from the extraordinary effort his players have produced across this block of fixtures.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Newsom’s closure of that highway, where shrapnel actually fell on police vehicles, probably saved both lives and plenty of property damage.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025

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“Maybe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maybe. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.

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