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for all one knows
adverb as in perhaps
Example Sentences
“It is difficult to say. But I think I should vote for Miss Debenham. For all one knows, she may be called by her second name and not her first. Also there is already some suspicion attaching to her. That conversation you overheard, mon cher, was certainly a little curious, and so is her refusal to explain it.”
For all one knows, employers are pocketing the savings.
Besides, for all one knows, those mentioned in the guide-book may be closed.
The ghosts of Byzantine emperors and exarchs, of Gothic kings and medi�val tyrants must be laid, one would think, by socialist meetings and electioneering squabbles; and perhaps by another movement, as modern and as revolutionary, which also centres in this big historical village, the reclaiming of marshland, which may bring about changes in mode of living and thinking such as Socialism can never effect; nay, for all one knows, changes in climate, in sea and wind and clouds.
For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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