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might | American Dictionary

might
us/mɑɪt/

might (MAY)

past simple of may
might
modal verb
us/mɑɪt/present tensemight

mightmodal verb (POSSIBILITY)

used to express the possibility that something will happen or be done or is true, although it may not be very likely:
We might come visit you in Atlanta in the spring.
He’s very fast and he might even finish in the top three.
The Beach Boys might well have been the most talented act to perform at the Monterey Pop Festival.

mightmodal verb (SUGGESTION)

used to make a suggestion or suggest a possibility in a polite way:
I thought you might like to join me for dinner.

mightmodal verb (SHOULD)

used to suggest, esp. angrily, what someone should do to be pleasant or polite:
You might at least try to look like you’re enjoying yourself!
might
noun[ U ]
us/mɑɪt/

mightnoun[U] (POWER)

power, strength, or force:
She struggled with all her might to lift the rock.

Examples of might

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A number of respondents thought they might be safer than ordinary bulbs, as they needed to be changed less often.
Problems, then, are raised about the ecological validity of this constraint and the role it might play in the perception of ordinary, everyday motion.
This is as might be expected physically, presumably foretelling the onset of a higher mode as predicted by the airfoil model.
An uncomputable problem might not be very interesting since the answer can never physically exist.
Specifically, the younger children might be expected to show greater phonetic sensitivity to the input than older children.
It is this affective and evaluative progress that teachers might try to develop in pupils in order to develop their skills of musical thinking further.
A critic of the data protection regime might note that the legislation protects debtors with more force than it does creditors.
If a rule with such a "compound" body is not redundant it might be so in part.
The attraction of what might at first blush seem a redundant translation was that nature could speak in a clear and undistorted voice.
On the one hand, payout per dollar of premium might be reduced if insurance companies believe that wealthier retirees will live longer.
One might even say that if the brain does not use localist representations then evolution has missed an excellent trick.
Having only one parent might have meant a household necessity of replacing the loss/absence of one parent.
The reported information on the form thus might not correspond to the reality of facts.
In this situation it was equally possible that other interested parties might want to strengthen the international reputation of the incumbent government.
Together they might suggest paths of reinterpretation of ageing as a social phenomenon.
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