as in maybe
it is possible
he may possibly recover after such a serious mistake, but it doesn't seem likely
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Sheppard — pressed into service after Fred VanVleet's possibly season-ending ACL tear suffered in September — has been so spotty on defense that Udoka has been reticent to play him much.
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
All of Miami’s pass rushers are aware Thursday night’s 28-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens could possibly be their last in a Dolphins uniform, at least for this season.
—Omar Kelly
updated October 31, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
The corpses examined had possibly been held by Israel for as long as two years, Kaki noted.
—ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025
And what may have been intended by the Kremlin as a way of bolstering its arguments over Ukraine, has possibly plunged us all into new, dangerous and unpredictable era.
—Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
All of Miami’s pass rushers are aware Thursday night’s 28-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens could possibly be their last in a Dolphins uniform, at least for this season.
—Omar Kelly
updated October 31, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
The corpses examined had possibly been held by Israel for as long as two years, Kaki noted.
—ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025
And what may have been intended by the Kremlin as a way of bolstering its arguments over Ukraine, has possibly plunged us all into new, dangerous and unpredictable era.
—Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for possibly
Adverb
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sports betting is probably as old as sports itself.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Possibly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/possibly. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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