Might-be

"Might-be" in a Sentence (5 examples)

"There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed.

In the Biology Teachers'" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a "might be", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...]

Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls "quality": "mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be.

It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance.

Context two is a 'might be' and is futural and nameable as 'the desired'.

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