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perhaps Definition In English

0 used to show that something is possible or that you are not certain about something:
- "I never remember people's birthdays." "Well, perhaps you should."
- There were perhaps 500 people at the meeting.
- We plan to travel to Europe - to Spain or Italy perhaps.
- Perhaps the most important question has not been asked.
- He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps he's lost my address.
1 used to show that something is possible or that you are not certain about something; maybe:
- Soon, perhaps as early as this week, she is to testify in the trial.
- Perhaps the greatest swimming coach in history, Kiphuth retired after 41 years at Yale.

The new clause is full of conditionals, qualifiers, maybes and perhapses.
Perhaps it sometimes rains for a few seconds, perhaps at four the sun holds back a few minutes as though they were rearing horses.
Perhaps more important, the unusual vanish stage direction is but one of several odd or even unique bits of stage business.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, died; and many more were imprisoned.
Perhaps he would be able to finance his dam project with the canal's revenues.
Large cloth-covered pots of cooked food were brought to perhaps entice us into going back.
Perhaps the exact same change could in principle be produced in you by precise neurosurgery, very far beyond the limits of present-day technique.
Mental health is perhaps the most neglected area of health policy and programming.