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'may have said' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when you are expressing uncertainty or making a guess about something someone said in the past. For example: "I'm not sure what he said, but I think he may have said something about the weather."
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"Hello!" he may have said.
I may have said good night.
"Maybe we should make it 'Ginslinger'?" someone may have said.
What would Theresa May have said about the Franks?
What other people may have said, I have no clue".
Whatever Hippocrates may have said, sometimes we do harm.
On cross-examination, he said, "I may have said it".
"Be careful," he may have said, or "Slow down".
Mommy may have said a few bad words.
"She may have said something like that," she says coyly.
He may have said "Welcome home," or it might have been, simply, "Next".
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