as in maybe
it is possible
perchance he is playing the devil's advocate, and the opinions he has expressed are not actually his own
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Recent Examples of perchance
Because any driver worth their salt would figure this out and likely after perchance one time falling into this bit of a roadway trap, would avoid going that way entirely.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
Ah, to sleep, perchance … to shrink your neural connections?
—Christopher Wanjek, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2017
To sleep, perchance to dream of a giant plate of nachos.
—Gray Chapman, SELF, 27 Mar. 2019
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
Ah, to sleep, perchance … to shrink your neural connections?
—Christopher Wanjek, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2017
To sleep, perchance to dream of a giant plate of nachos.
—Gray Chapman, SELF, 27 Mar. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perchance
Adverb
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If not the Caped Crusader directly, then maybe a member of the Batman Family such as Nightwing or Batgirl.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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In turn, Venezuela would agree to slow emigration or maybe take back millions of migrants deported from the U.S.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
18 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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TikTok Users and the Five Stages of Grief The reactions across what may possibly serve as the final week of the app's operations in the U.S. have shown every one of the five stages of grief, and on the final day before the shutdown, acceptance is setting in.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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If the first court convicts him and issues a prison term, Yoon would serve that sentence as the case possibly moves up to the Seoul High Court and Supreme Court.—
Kim Tong-Hyung,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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Most lands in most continents have usually been ruled by kings and queens, perhaps nowhere more so than in Europe.—
Geoffrey Wheatcroft,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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But per Bloomberg on Thursday, the bureau has now reportedly warned agents that some of its own call logs stolen from AT&T during the attacks may be able to identify sources and perhaps even informants.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Detectives working on the case eventually concluded that all the scam calls were probably coming from one person as the events and methods of operation were almost identical each time.—
Yasmeen Hamadeh,
People.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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In fact, exchanging letters with Sebastien probably came with more bad feelings than good ones.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Perchance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perchance. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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