Maybe and Rather

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Maybe adverb - It is possible.

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Rather and maybe are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rather" instead an adverb "Maybe".

Rather adverb - By choice or preference.

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Maybe and rather are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Maybe" instead an adverb "Rather".

God of War, has Kratos, a man who killed a pantheon rather than admit that maybe, just maybe, something was his own damn fault.

Source: Its All About Me / Video Games and Visual Novels
Victor doesn't even think for a moment that maybe, just maybe, he's going to go after his wife and instead assumes the monster will just murder him, so he insists on being alone rather than endanger her, leaving her completely unprotected (and unwarned about a dangerous psycho who wants revenge).

Source: Idiot Plot / Literature
Maybe it's because they seem rather out of place in a world as crapsacky as Dragonlance.

Source: The Scrappy / Other Media

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