may be
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See also: maybe
English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- Misspelling of maybe.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see may, be.
- 1845, Andrew Ure, “ARROW ROOT”, in Recent Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: […], London: […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 10:
- The presence of potato starch in arrow root may be discovered by the microscope.