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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. May- be

    Perhaps.

    May-be, that better reason will asswage
    The rash revenger’s heart, words well dispos’d
    Have secret pow’r t’ appease inflamed rage. Fairy Queen.

    May-be, the am’rous count solicits her
    In the unlawful purpose. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

    ’Tis nothing yet, yet all thou hast to give;
    Then add those may-be years thou hast to live. Dryden.

    What they offer is bare may-be and shift, and scarce ever amounts to a tolerable reason. Thomas Creech.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of may be in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of may be in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of may be in a Sentence

  1. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

    No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

  2. Alan MacEachin:

    Strains on household budgets such as rising housing and healthcare-related costs may be crowding out purchases of retail goods. I see no compelling reason at this time for the Fed to raise interest rates in September.

  3. Tim Bain:

    We think there may be something to do with gas in the intestines, bubbles, that kind of stuff. The medical treatment is really simethicone— that really has been proven not to work, but people are doing that every single day.

  4. Commerce Ministry:

    Even as government of India is conscious of the need to spur innovation and protect individual rights, it retains the sovereign right to utilize the flexibilities provided in the international (IP rights) regime, it may be noted that to date, there has been only one case of compulsory licence in India and that too after a well-thought out and laid down process, which was subsequently upheld right up to the highest Court of the land.

  5. Benjamin Sommers:

    With the expanded coverage, you're not going to diagnose more broken bones because whether or not they have insurance, when somebody breaks a leg they are going to get an x-ray, these findings with diabetes may be the tip of the iceberg, and you can imagine similar outcomes for earlier detection of high blood pressure, or cancer, or mental illness.


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