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anyway

[en-ee-wey]

adverb

in any case; anyhow; nonetheless; regardless: Whether you like it or not, I'm going anyway.

(used to continue or resume the thread of a story or account): Anyway, we finally found a plumber who could come right over.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English ani wei. See any, way

Usage note
The adverb anyway is spelled as one word: It was snowing hard, but we drove to the play anyway. The two-word phrase any way means “in any manner”: Finish the job any way you choose. If the words “in the” can be substituted for “any,” the two-word phrase is called for: Finish the job in the way you choose. EXPANDIf the substitution cannot be made, the spelling is anyway.

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Anyway is always a great word to know.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Example Sentences

Not in the traditional meet-the-public and kiss-the-babies sense, anyway.

And even if programs refuse to cooperate, the council has a number of alternative strategies for rating them anyway.

Its rules of economic seamanship were rudimentary, and were broken anyway.

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Not in the traditional meet-the-public and kiss-the-babies sense, anyway.

And even if programs refuse to cooperate, the council has a number of alternative strategies for rating them anyway.

Its rules of economic seamanship were rudimentary, and were broken anyway.

And unless you have diabetes, blood sugar remains generally stable anyway.

Not that it matters, as it isn't really what the sentence you quoted was about anyway.

But an ecologist probably won't mind because she's happier out in the muck anyway.

Subscribe anyway and donate your citrus to a food bank.

Merry go rounds are on their way out of parks anyway.

And many pragmatists feel that tenure is no longer a guarantee anyway.

Proponents say that illegal means illegal, and they shouldn't be here anyway.

On a raw winter day you might think that a few degrees of warming wouldn't be such a bad thing anyway.

Wendy- you ask if there is anyway elephants can be bred to be tuskless.

We left a little memorial card and some flowers anyway.

Or that's my excuse anyway for posting so many recipes in what is supposed to be a garden blog.

Anyone dedicated enough to do that was probably going to pirate the game anyway.

But they get paid for whatever they do daily anyway.

Governments, often corrupt, can do only so much anyway.

Aluminum cans are easy to collect and recycle, but many people throw them out anyway.

If people didn't exist, the laws of thermodynamics would have invented us anyway.

The pair seemed to have been caught in flagrante delicto, or close to it anyway.

It's not for hard science majors, but the lab rats will prefer brick-and-mortar, anyway.

To speed up change, they need to take actions that are in their own interests anyway.

But you don't need to see every iteration to know that it is happening anyway.

There's no need to invoke neurons, not for the froglegs anyway.

Even if they never show up, though, people are so fond of the dinosaur that it will likely be restored anyway.

Mani the monkey was never trained to herd goats, but somehow she manages anyway.

But it looks hopeful for the uses described, anyway.

And after a while, it's apparent that the venom isn't affecting me anyway.

The chairman knew perfectly well that he was going to be harming the environment and decided to go ahead anyway.

Every one of their men disagreed with them, but cheerfully followed them anyway.

The climate change benefits were merely considered an added benefit of a proposal thought would have gone forward anyway.

The moose was already severely wounded and probably would have died anyway.

IT will always be able to help if you lose it anyway.

My headlamp was blocked by my flash and turning on the light would spook the bird anyway.

Ultimately the peer review system as it stands is on it's last legs anyway.

The good folks don't need laws and the bad one's won't obey them anyway.

That's what one golfer said about his gigantic driver, anyway.

The land they take in graveyards will only be forgotten in a few hundred years anyway.

If you don't have a naked mole rat around to measure, well, your chances in the academic job market are basically shot anyway.

The skiddishness of investors isn't likely to change overnight anyway.

Their site seems to be getting slammed at the moment, but go over and give them some cash anyway.

Unless one is an idiot, but if so, people will find out soon enough anyway.

Most people thought he was crazy to be doing that job anyway.

The other thing the masks do for me is they make them look even more sinister and silly than they would anyway.

Get outside letters anyway since those will help you with external applications.

Anything that advances the interest of a company, the company should be doing anyway.

Personally, the idea doesn't sound that appealing to me anyway.

No problem, as you won't be leaving this out in the street anyway.

Some who refused are said to have had kidneys removed anyway after being drugged.

But the law is enforced anyway with dire consequences.

No one knows whether the stories were true, but people were enjoyably shocked by them anyway.

Although the detector senses no radiation, the inspectors open the container anyway.

Either they don't, or they've forgotten, or they need to be told again anyway.

Investment-grade companies are sitting on lots of cash, and have been able to access financing throughout the crisis anyway.

Decades or centuries from now-the time line is hotly disputed-the facility may have to be closed anyway.

Search committees don't care as long as the salutation isn't rude, as they're not reading the salutation anyway.

And anyway it now seems unlikely that suspending fair value would make much difference.

Then he announced that he was going to climb anyway.

Omit mention of the doctoral program-- it wasn't required for the job anyway.

When all else fails, try to embrace the blur that you have to accept anyway.

The thing is the environment will do this anyway with or, without us.

Whether sedentary lifestyles are part of the cause or not, people need to exercise more than they do now anyway.

Skype, but there really ought to be a less hackish solution for that anyway.

The real heavy lifting, neurologically speaking, is in our subconscious anyway.

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World English Dictionary

anyway (ˈɛnɪˌweɪ)

—*adv*
1.	in any case; at any rate; nevertheless; anyhow
2.	in a careless or haphazard manner
3.	Usually any way. in any manner; by any means

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Word Origin & History

anyway

1560s, any way; variant any ways (with adv. gen.) attested from c.1560. One-word form predominated from 1830s.

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