in any case

in any case

1. (idiomatic) Whatever be the case.

   Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow.

   Synonyms: whatever the case may be, anyhow, anyway, at any rate, in any event, come what may, regardless; see also Thesaurus:regardless

   • 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107:

     Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny,

   • 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38:

     The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.

   • 1987, Joseph Canning, The Political Thought of Baldus de Ubaldis, page 53:

     Because of the juristic difficulties associated with the Donation of Constantine, the question of whether the papacy had in any case prescribed its jurisdiction in the patrimony had become a common topic amongst jurists

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in,‎ any,‎ case.

   Their most popular product, an assortment of ales, is packaged such that there are always at least two bottles of India pale ale in any case.

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