perhaps

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If you’ve got a cruise booked, it’s perhaps worth thinking about how you might reduce your risk of infectious disease.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

Some speculate Simons could still return to politics, perhaps in a senior policy role in a future Burnham administration.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Auden also believed that Kafka’s writing could be dangerous for melancholics and that perhaps this is why Kafka wanted it destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Next year perhaps it will be the ghost of Chico Marx with his immortal line, “Who are you gonna believe — me or your own eyes?”

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

They had hoped that more earthquakes, or perhaps a new growth on the bulge, would signal that the big one—the eruption they were all waiting for—was about to happen.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone