perhaps

Example Sentences

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For a historian the stories need "ifs" and "abouts" and "perhapses" but for a legend they are fine.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2016

Biographies of Shakespeare often end up—like the Oxfordian conspiracy theories they rightfully mock—building their assertions upon a latticework of maybes and perhapses and must haves that suddenly, a few pages later, become dids.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2016

Our rhetoric is full of perhapses and maybes, our mind toggles between what we think and ought to be thinking.

From Salon • Feb. 16, 2014

And so on, with ever more counterfactual supposes, would-haves, might-haves, could-haves, possiblys, perhapses, probablys and maybes, in all their dizzying permutations--from Jerusalem in 701 B.C. to China in 1946.

From Time Magazine Archive

Life is a string of perhapses, A medley of whens and so whats.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner