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Recent Examples of maybe A little over the top, maybe, but full marks for acknowledging a mistake and correcting it quickly. Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025 Toronto’s Platform was created in 2015 to highlight bold, innovative early to mid-career filmmakers maybe on the cusp of breakthrough, the 10th anniversary Platform. John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025 Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts. Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025 There was at least one fan, and maybe just one fan, wearing a Mizzou hat and Mizzou Tigers T shirt at the event. Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for maybe
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maybe
Adverb
  • Jeffrey Katzenberg—film producer, former DreamWorks CEO, and founding partner of tech investment firm WndrCo—is, perhaps most importantly, a dad and a grandfather.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Not a good record at all for a team that not only will host the World Cup, but wants to go deep, and perhaps reach the quarterfinals.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • And among the three alternating points of view is one possibly unhinged bookseller.
    Susan Coll September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Tony & Ziva viewers possibly predict that a child’s bed-wetting would be the catalyst for the couple’s June 2020 engagement?
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 12 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • That probably caught Giants fans off guard, but inside the Colts’ building?
    Dianna Russini, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Those guys are minutes from each other, probably seeing each other on a weekly, daily basis.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Maybe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maybe. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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