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perhaps
[ per-haps ]
adverb
- maybe; possibly:
Perhaps the package will arrive today.
perhaps
/ pəˈhæps; præps /
adverb
- possibly; maybe
- ( as sentence modifier )
perhaps you'll see him tomorrow
he'll arrive tomorrow, perhaps
sentence substitute
- it may happen, be so, etc; maybe
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of perhaps1
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Example Sentences
Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.
Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
Democrats would be mistaken to underestimate Mike Huckabee, perhaps the strongest Republican presidential contender.
Perhaps, as Dwight Garner wrote, Steinberg just needed an idea for a book.
Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
There is, perhaps, in this childish suffering often something more than the sense of being homeless and outcast.
Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.
The sensation she had communicated to him then she communicated again, this time perhaps more strongly.
When he gets quite large the boy will get tired of having him for a pet, and perhaps bring him back.
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