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[ adverb ] used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement
Synonyms Examples "Anyhow, he is dead now" "I don't know what happened to it anyway, it's gone" "in any case, there was a brief scuffle" "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)To say this , of_course , is to take_up a position on one side of a controversy going_on now for some two hundred years , or , at_any_rate , since the beginning of the distinctively modern period in theological thought . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)At_any_rate , Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set_up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)Not tonight , at_any_rate . |
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[ adverb ] if nothing else
Examples "at least he survived" "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary" "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching" (`leastwise' is informal `leastways' is colloquial) Related terms |
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