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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



... malicious catastrophe threatened him. Both of them knew when he said good-by that morning and hurried out to catch his train that he was facing ruin. His wife begged him to let her go with him; at least she would be some one to talk to on that interminable journey; but he said that was absurd; and, anyway, he had a lot of thinking to do. So he ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... do you think it would hurt Izzy to make a move once in a while? He was the one made her cry, anyway, guying her about spaghetti on ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... now I'm for ever picking it up. It always opens at the same page and I find myself thinking, speculating about it in a ridiculous manner. I shall throw the thing away to-morrow, but I know the page by heart anyway. It's an account of the work of some school or other. Here are a few of the lectures that ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole

... I'll go home now. I'm not well, and mother'll be alarmed about me—I ought not to have left father alone to tend store, and I feel that I've taken cold. I presume some of these folks will have a spare seat, and my boots have shrunk, and I don't care for picnics as a general thing, anyway. My clothes are shrinking all the time, and I think we're going to have a thunder-shower, and I guess I'll ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

... run him down. The thug, acting on the spur of the moment, with a blow in the dark and a getaway through the night, leaves no trace behind him. Your "smart criminal" always overreaches himself.'—A pretty theory, but wild. Anyway, it made me forget myself; I talked ...
— No Clue - A Mystery Story • James Hay


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