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Maybe

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Adverb

1. maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly

by chance

Example Sentences:
'perhaps she will call tomorrow'
'we may possibly run into them at the concert'
'it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Maybe

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adverb
1. 
a. 
perhaps
b. 
(as sentence modifier)
maybe I'll come tomorrow
sentence substitute
2. 
possibly; neither yes nor no

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Maybe

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adverb
perhaps

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Maybe

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adv.
Used to indicate uncertainty or possibility: We should maybe take a different route. Maybe it won't rain.
n.
Informal
1. An uncertainty: There are so many maybes involved in playing the stock market.
2. An uncertain reply: It's better to receive a fast and honest no than a drawn-out maybe.

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