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Filled answer is this word (PERHAPS).
Definitions
Maybe, possibly, or used to express uncertainty.
Word origin
From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).
Used in a sentence
“Perhaps John will come over for dinner.”
“There was a perhaps credible witness.”
“He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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