“To sleep: perchance to dream…” —Shakespeare, Hamletperchance he is playing the devil's advocate, and the opinions he has expressed are not actually his own
Recent Examples on the WebBecause any driver worth their salt would figure this out and likely after perchance one time falling into this bit of a roadway trap, would avoid going that way entirely.—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021 Ah, to sleep, perchance … to shrink your neural connections?—Christopher Wanjek, Scientific American, 3 Feb. 2017 To sleep, perchance to dream of a giant plate of nachos.—Gray Chapman, SELF, 27 Mar. 2019
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English parchaunce, from Anglo-French par chance, by chance
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