fading · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: hn, cooking, parenting
“might”, “could”, “consider”, “perhaps”, “potential” — the tentative, option-listing voice of the 2024 model generation. Current models use “might” at one-fifth the rate of their predecessors. Replaced by the plain-spoken confidence cluster (see “in practice”, hedge-adverbs).
Words too common to pattern-match usefully; tracked as corpus rates, not by the checker.
model specificity: vintage models
“You might consider discussing your concerns… it could be worth exploring…” (2024-era)