/a lo meˈxoɾ/
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maybe, perhaps
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Examples
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Maybe it'll rain tomorrow.
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She's not answering. Perhaps she's at home.
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I don't know, maybe you're right.
means maybe, and has nothing to do with the best. Where quizás can take the subjunctive, it takes the ordinary indicative: a lo mejor llueve, never a lo mejor llueva. It is the everyday spoken maybe in Spain and much of Latin America.
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