may (very) easily

may (very) easily
used for saying that something is fairly likely to be true or is fairly likely to happen

What you say may very well be true.

A small technical error may easily result in a serious accident.

it may well be that:

It may well be that the information is not available.

Thesaurus: to be certain or likely to happensynonym general words meaning to happensynonym
Main entry: may

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