as in whatever
in spite of everything
I don't care what you say—I'm going anyways!
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Recent Examples of anyways
By the end of the 1990s, just about no recreational diver was using a mechanical watch anyways, so the whole idea of a mechanical dive watch today is a nostalgic exercise in postmodern irony.
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Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2024
Lorne Michaels had warned him that flying weekly between New York and London to film would be too grueling, but Yang went ahead with it anyways.
—Sarah Burke, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
My small chronos with similarly elaborate timing scales are pretty much illegible anyways.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
Newport questioned Bateman on why Osmond anyways and if his last name had anything to do with the appeal.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024
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Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2024
Lorne Michaels had warned him that flying weekly between New York and London to film would be too grueling, but Yang went ahead with it anyways.
—Sarah Burke, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
My small chronos with similarly elaborate timing scales are pretty much illegible anyways.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2024
Newport questioned Bateman on why Osmond anyways and if his last name had anything to do with the appeal.
—Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anyways
Adverb
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Wants to be sure her friends notice her new whatever-she's-wearing.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 May 2021
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And so the Administration of Harvard, by its own admission, has taken no action whatever.—
William F. Buckley Jr.,
National Review,
23 Oct. 2017
Adverb
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By providing that access, USAID may have violated the Privacy Act of 1974, three experts on the law told ProPublica, regardless if the engineers were government employees at the time.—
Anna Maria Barry-Jester,
ProPublica,
9 Feb. 2025
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What is the point of the enhancements to the academy setup if the club’s best players are going to be picked off like this regardless?—
Matt Woosnam,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Tanking might be impossible anyway considering how Ersson has played lately.—
Kevin Kurz,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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But old computers don’t necessarily make for bad infrastructure, and government infrastructure isn’t always old anyway.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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