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anyway
[ en-ee-wey ]
adverb
- in any case; anyhow; nonetheless; regardless:
Whether you like it or not, I'm going anyway.
- (used to continue or resume the thread of a story or account):
Anyway, we finally found a plumber who could come right over.
anyway
/ ˈɛɪˌɱɪ /
adverb
- in any case; at any rate; nevertheless; anyhow
- in a careless or haphazard manner
- Usually any way . in any manner; by any means
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Example Sentences
Maybe if I were acting . . . well, I wouldn’t have been acting in 1500, because it would have been a man anyway.
"Well, anyway, I'm just sorry. I would have been hurt if it had been me and someone in my industry used me and my name, and I saw that, and I'm sorry."
About 30,000 people each year visit anyway, according to a city study, most of them trespassing for more than a mile along oily train tracks that wend along the Sacramento River.
Headlines about the late pontiff’s deteriorating health had been making the rounds, and anyway, given the criteria for the position, a papal passing is never too far-fetched.
It is hard enough to predict results in the Premier League anyway, but at this stage of the season it is even more difficult.
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