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Recent Examples of mayhap Given that the Switch is getting up there in years compared to its competition, mayhap a new system is on the horizon, one that might be teased at tomorrow’s Direct? Ash Parrish, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
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Adverb
  • Well, maybe a little surprised, considering the opponent was the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, who allowed only four runs in sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Barring a late season storm, Duarte and Palazon expect the prices to hold steady, maybe even drop a little, as the first-month fever and novelty dies down.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • But perhaps some of it had to do with precisely this feeling of poignancy that seeing me would have engendered in him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But the physical being would be transformed, and perhaps the soul, which didn’t go its separate way but was always a co-conspirator with the body.
    James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 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
  • Louisville would probably look quite different if the founder of Brown-Forman never became the first whiskey maker to bottle and seal his liquor.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Sports betting is probably as old as sports itself.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Mayhap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mayhap. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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