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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



... in one of his own choice. And you have a wife and children and they'll be at that man's mercy. Don't make me kill you. Ribiera may not blame you for my escape if you tell him everything—and you're hurt, anyway. Either we get away, and you do that, or you're killed ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... Baxter interposed, hurriedly. "Of course! I'm going now. I have to go hunt up those children, anyway. You try to be back for lunch at half past one—and don't worry, dear; you really ...
— Seventeen - A Tale Of Youth And Summer Time And The Baxter Family Especially William • Booth Tarkington

... anyway," was Mary's first thought, as she glanced at her sister's radiant face. "She wouldn't look so pretty if it wasn't. It's a pity she can't be hearing good news all the time. When her eyes shine like that, she's almost beautiful. Now me, all the good news in the world wouldn't ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston

... book is reminiscent of "The Lost Middy", by the same author, but I suppose that with a similar theme, a nosey midshipman taken prisoner by a gang of smugglers, there are bound to be other points of similarity. Anyway, it is a good fast-moving story, with lots of well-drawn ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn

... rise, this being surely a matter for them to battle out between themselves, but I at once felt her powerful grip on my arm. Whether she was afraid of herself or of Lackaday, I did not know. Anyway, I seemed to represent to her some kind of human dummy which could be used, at need, as ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke


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