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In any event   /ɪn ˈɛni ɪvˈɛnt/   Listen
In any event

adverb
1.
Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.  Synonyms: anyhow, anyway, anyways, at any rate, in any case.  "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"






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"In any event" Quotes from Famous Books



... him. The proposal of a hunt suited him. He must have a supply of food to carry him to Lookout. Whaley was a good shot and an expert trailer. If there were caribou or moose in the vicinity, he was likely to make a kill. In any event there would be hundreds of white rabbits scurrying through the woods. He decided craftily to make use of the gambler, and after he was through ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine

... Stake in the Great Struggle is secure. How much more we will have to put into Europe's Red Pay Envelope remains to be seen. In any event, we have learned ...
— The War After the War • Isaac Frederick Marcosson

... had been sold, that I might purchase of a propitious vender; solicited those who had been fortunate in former lotteries, to partake with me in my new tickets; and whenever I met with one that had in any event of his life been eminently prosperous, I invited him to take a larger share. I had, by this rule of conduct, so diffused my interest, that I had a fourth part of fifteen tickets, an eighth of forty, ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson

... The remarkable fact that the actual evil is yet only anticipated—inferred—induces me to suppose that I understand the case. But I do not state my impression, because I might be mistaken, and because your duty and mine is plain in any event. ...
— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield

... inexpediency of returning him immediately to the theatre of disaffection, before the embers of ancient animosity had had time to cool, there were several features in his character, which make it doubtful whether he were the most competent person, in any event, for an emergency demanding at once the greatest coolness, consummate address, and acknowledged personal authority. His sublime enthusiasm, which carried him victorious over every obstacle, involved him also in numerous embarrassments, which men of more phlegmatic temperament would have escaped. ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott


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