maybe in All languages combined

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Maybe someday I'll learn how to drive."
        },
        {
          "text": "Yeah. I thought, you know, maybe if I tried again, it might work."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you say that maybe something will happen or that maybe it is true, you mean there is a chance of those things."
      ],
      "id": "simple-maybe-en-adv-yEiS5mnN"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Maybe you ought to look at this again."
        },
        {
          "text": "There are, uh, maybe twenty or twenty two people in the group."
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Is that the right answer?\" \"No, maybe not.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "It's good, maybe even great."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "You use maybe when you are not sure about something."
      ],
      "id": "simple-maybe-en-adv-Em1nabcs"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "mā'bē",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪbi/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-maybe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-maybe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maybe"
}

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Maybe someday I'll learn how to drive."
        },
        {
          "text": "Yeah. I thought, you know, maybe if I tried again, it might work."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you say that maybe something will happen or that maybe it is true, you mean there is a chance of those things."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Maybe you ought to look at this again."
        },
        {
          "text": "There are, uh, maybe twenty or twenty two people in the group."
        },
        {
          "text": "\"Is that the right answer?\" \"No, maybe not.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "It's good, maybe even great."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "You use maybe when you are not sure about something."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "mā'bē",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmeɪbi/",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-maybe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-maybe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "maybe"
}

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"maybe" meaning in All languages combined

Adverb [English]