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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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
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“Perchance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perchance. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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