perhaps
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- adverb
- /pərˈhæps/
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- I will come to the party, but perhaps I will be late.
- perhaps even
- perhaps more importantly
- perhaps most
So now we're settling on perhaps a couple of cats.
- So now we're settling on perhaps a couple of cats.
- It's not that you are foolish, but perhaps because you are brave.
- I I don't know, it could be perhaps a mukbang.
- And what have you discovered can perhaps slow it down?
- It's we, we do perhaps need it.
- Part of my individuality, perhaps not part of yours.
- Looking set to hit the record perhaps within the next week.
- So you've lived perhaps through an AI winter of sorts.
Examples
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I think perhaps another time.
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For now and in many cases, perhaps forever.
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And what have you discovered can perhaps slow it down?
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And for this reason that it perhaps will open something up.
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So that would be one there perhaps, and one there perhaps.
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I thought perhaps we could drive up together.
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I thought perhaps I could throw a little more business your way.
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The price of a free society is that sometimes, perhaps often, we make bad choices.
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Perhaps it is time that you followed in her path.
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The strong support of the local government was perhaps 80% of the battle won.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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It might happen or be true
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Likely to happen or be true but not certain
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May happen or be true and sometimes makes a request more polite
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There is a good chance it will happen
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Might happen later but is not yet real
People use it to say maybe in old or poetic language
Said when you are not sure about something, often in old-fashioned language
Maybe in older or more formal writing
To show that something might happen
Says that something might happen by chance
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perhaps comes from old parts per- ('by') and hap ('chance' or 'luck'), so it originally meant 'by chance'. So to say perhaps is like saying something happens 'by chance', which is why we use it to mean 'maybe' or 'possibly'. You can also see the same hap in the word happen, which helps you remember the idea of chance.