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Discover LudwigThe phrase "asked maybe" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It could be used in informal contexts where someone is uncertain about a question or request they made.
Example: "I asked maybe if we could reschedule the meeting for next week."
Alternatives: "inquired perhaps" or "wondered if".
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These were my thoughts when the waitress approached and asked (maybe a little sadistically?) if I'd like to "try the whale".
I asked maybe 13 people if they would like to donate things [to offer as rewards], all people I knew very well.
"They didn't seriously consider her until four or five days from the time she was picked, before she was asked, maybe the Thursday or Friday before," said a Republican close to the campaign.
When I met our previous prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, he told me that when he first was appointed p.m. and had his official first meeting with the king at the Royal Palace the King asked — maybe to make the newly appointed p.m. feel more at ease — if he was reading anything interesting.
In a meeting recently, someone asked: "Maybe we could track their results on the computer?" My state school mind panicked: "Please don't let the data train stop here, that's where the madness starts!" However, the other part of me wonders how we are so antiquated.
To be honest with you, I've asked maybe the last six years to do Strictly and then this year I didn't ask and they're all over me.
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Isn't every week, you ask? Maybe, but some are more emphatically so than others.
Except, wait, that's worse, because then you have to ask: Maybe everything you write is dreadful, too?
In that poem of his, he asks: "Maybe I should die?
"Who are you?" he asks, maybe because I'm the only one on the premises who isn't Persian.
Wasn't he worried about shrinkage, I ask? "Maybe," says Stevens, recollecting temperatures of -5C that froze the sand white.
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