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Given their influence, it’s perhaps no surprise, then, that Mr. Dylan has said that he “knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go. In my head, the Beatles were it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Previous work by the UMass Amherst team suggests that these explosions might occur more often than expected, perhaps once every decade.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

A journalist — or perhaps several of them — reported that when an American F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran last Friday, both crew members were not immediately accounted for.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

He said that his background is unusual but perhaps not all that uncommon for an artist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

She placed the holy book under her pillow perhaps for protection.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock