Perhaps
Rather
Rather adverb - By choice or preference.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Spell My Name with an "S": Perhaps what they really meant was Sheryl not Cyril, Gustav instead of Gustaf, Walter rather than Valter, Emma rather than Ema, and Clotho for Klotho.
Source: Video Game / Sol Trigger - Perhaps the strangest thing about Nucleon is that it is rather consistently depicted as a liquid, like Energon.
Source: Photoprotoneutron Torpedo -
One orc describes him as "rather like a spider himself, or perhaps like a starved frog."
Source: Primal Stance
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