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maybe

/ˈmeɪ.bi/ adverb A1
  1. Perhaps, possibly. · A small extra effort now can maybe save you much work later.· Maybe I was imagining it, but I could swear that the dog understood what I was saying.
  2. Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).
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Maybe they were out of boys of the brand you wanted.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 13 · C1
I thought maybe he was going to the doctor’s.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 5 · C1
I ain’t afeared of anything on this side o’ the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o’ the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 42 · B2
“Well, maybe a wee nip would keep out the raw morning chill.
The Valley of Fear, p. 10 · C1

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