as in maybe
it is possible
perhaps we will not have to take this exam, but I doubt it
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Their every motion relies on a vast network of senses and systems, perhaps tapping into ancient evolutionary hardwiring to synchronize into crisp choreography.
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
And why, at the same time, the Pro Football Hall of Fame committee’s decision to keep Bill Belichick out on the first ballot — perhaps because of his role in Spygate and Deflategate — has the sports media and fans losing their minds.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
James McNicholas Aston Villa Kyriani Sabbe Aston Villa are well-stocked in most areas now, owing to the arrival of Tammy Abraham easing forward concerns and that Leon Bailey is back to being used, perhaps temporarily, as an option out wide.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Longitudinal documentaries — shot over many years and following their subjects over wide swaths of their lives — sometimes have a tendency to totalize, almost as if their scope justifies and perhaps demands a solemn, all-encompassing thesis.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
And why, at the same time, the Pro Football Hall of Fame committee’s decision to keep Bill Belichick out on the first ballot — perhaps because of his role in Spygate and Deflategate — has the sports media and fans losing their minds.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
James McNicholas Aston Villa Kyriani Sabbe Aston Villa are well-stocked in most areas now, owing to the arrival of Tammy Abraham easing forward concerns and that Leon Bailey is back to being used, perhaps temporarily, as an option out wide.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Longitudinal documentaries — shot over many years and following their subjects over wide swaths of their lives — sometimes have a tendency to totalize, almost as if their scope justifies and perhaps demands a solemn, all-encompassing thesis.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2026
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Then again, maybe that’s too much attachment to reality.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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Or, maybe, our first night of vigil for Alex Jeffery Pretti, will be a kind of wavering candlelight in the deep, dark moral and ethical power outage that is America, for so many near and far.—
Ed Bok Lee,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Yet on Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan also reemerges as a restless, sometimes cordial, often corrosive analyst, agreeing at last to engage—if not fully to explain—the whats, hows, and, possibly whys of his creative life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Two sources, including one inside Iran, previously told CBS News that at least 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed throughout Iran in the protests.—
Ramy Inocencio,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Many Cuban Americans were mistreated and would probably like to return.—
Moriah Thomas,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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The problem is that person probably doesn't exist.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Perhaps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perhaps. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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