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Adverb
maybe we can make it to the concert, if we hurry
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Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
The truth about online alerts fueling impulse buys More:Consumers could see a $5 overdraft fee in 2025 under a final rule — or maybe, not
School events are streamed.
—Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2024
Don’t rely on maybes or the remote possibilities others suggest.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Adverb
Her few literary precedents included her colleague Edwin Denby, maybe Aby Warburg, perhaps a few nineteenth-century European or Russian writers.
—Jennifer Homans, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
The truth about online alerts fueling impulse buys More:Consumers could see a $5 overdraft fee in 2025 under a final rule — or maybe, not
School events are streamed.
—Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
This is the season of second guessing on the left, a time of what-ifs and maybes.
—Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2024
Don’t rely on maybes or the remote possibilities others suggest.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Maybe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maybe. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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