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at any rate
- (conjunctive) In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard or qualify a previous thought.
Jim broke the window — or maybe it was John? At any rate, the window’s broken now.
He's stinking rich — or, at any rate, pretty well off.
1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
1947 July and August, “Notes and News: Caledonian Reminiscences”, in Railway Magazine, page 256:At any rate, in my experience, they could run like the wind, but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them.
2008, Graham Oppy, David Dowe, “The Turing Test”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation, or, at any rate, unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us?
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