possibly
Americanadverb
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perhaps; maybe.
It may possibly rain today.
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in a possible manner.
She has all the money she can possibly use.
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by any possibility.
Could you possibly check this information for me?
adverb
Etymology
Origin of possibly
Example Sentences
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I thought some of the things he said could not possibly be true.
From BBC
"How would you even possibly begin to regulate that?" agrees her friend Mekenzie Sutton, noting that it's hard to determine who is ready to undertake a climb.
From BBC
And, possibly, long enough to know how to get under the skin of an old master.
From BBC
This pattern suggests that shared signals, possibly factors circulating in the bloodstream, help coordinate aging throughout the body.
From Science Daily
When the singer put out “Red Rose Speedway” in 1973, the Village Voice spurned it as “possibly the worst album ever made by a rock and roller of the first rank.”
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