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ever adv.
possibly adv.

ADVERB

ever

Synonyms

STRONGEST

consistently constantly continually forever regularly usually

WEAK

anytime at all at all times at any point endlessly eternally everlastingly evermore for keeps in any case in perpetuum incessantly invariably on any occasion perpetually relentlessly till cows come home to the end of time unceasingly unendingly

ADVERB

possibly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conceivably likely perhaps probably

STRONG

maybe peradventure perchance

WEAK

God willing at all by any means could be if possible in any way not impossibly within realm of possibility

Antonyms

STRONGEST

improbably unlikely

WEAK

impossibly

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by any chance

But “Liberation” wasn’t a shoo-in, by any chance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

"Did you by any chance save somebody's life in Bedford Street the other day?"

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

"You wouldn't," the woman next to me at our table asked the waiter gently, "just happen, by any chance, to have Coke?"

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022

Uh, do you, by any chance know, Paris where she is right now, right?’

From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2021

“I’m inquiring about my sister. She was purchasing com. Did she by any chance come by here today?”

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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