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Anyway   /ˈɛniwˌeɪ/   Listen
Anyway

adverb
1.
Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.  Synonyms: anyhow, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event.  "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet" , "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone" , "Anyway, there is another factor to consider" , "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle" , "In any event, the government faced a serious protest" , "But at any rate he got a knighthood for it"
2.
In any way whatsoever.  Synonym: anyhow.  "Get it done anyway you can"






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"Anyway" Quotes from Famous Books



... when we stop to inquire as to what makes a university or any other institution of learning—what it is that really gives it its reputation, its character, its influence. What is it, anyway? Its towering brick walls? Its libraries and its laboratories? Its athletic prowess? Its beautiful campus? Why, no, of course not. Not any one of these nor all of them combined, complete and extended and excellent as they may be, or as useful as they ...
— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd

... me, but the reality never came. Father concluded, after I had finished my job of ploughing, that he could not afford it. Butter was low and he had too many other ways for using his money. I think it quite possible that my dreams gave me the best there was in Harpersfield anyway—a worthy aspiration is never lost. All these things differentiate me from ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs

... than roses we're feelin'," Ellen answered, "but something with prickles anyway, wid the bother we have ...
— Fairies and Folk of Ireland • William Henry Frost

... find the pocketbook, and the money and ring safely in it. I know you wanted to play, and that is why you did not go to the store at once. But never mind. Mother should not have left the ring in the pocketbook. It is largely mother's own fault. Anyway, daddy will ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove • Laura Lee Hope

... forty-five, Colonel, it will give us a drop in our flasks to start with, and we are as likely to be fifteen days as fourteen, anyway." ...
— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty


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