1
as in whatever
in spite of everything
I know I really can't afford it, but I'm buying that new car anyway
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2
as in randomly
without definite aim, direction, rule, or method
do it anyway you feel like
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as in always
whatever else is done or is the case
pack an extra sweater anyway, as you never know when you might end up needing it
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Recent Examples of anyway
Those seeking to end the competition won … but most proved desperate enough to return anyway.
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Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Mets fans are no longer conditioned — at least not for the moment, anyway — to believe that things are supposed to go wrong for them.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Some were ineligible, injured or suspended anyway but 19 did not travel for the match at Astana yesterday.
—Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
In states where bans have passed through the legislature, including in Tennessee, testimony from those opposing such care has often been discredited—yet politicians pass the bans anyway, often along party lines.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Mets fans are no longer conditioned — at least not for the moment, anyway — to believe that things are supposed to go wrong for them.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
Some were ineligible, injured or suspended anyway but 19 did not travel for the match at Astana yesterday.
—Simon Johnson and Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
In states where bans have passed through the legislature, including in Tennessee, testimony from those opposing such care has often been discredited—yet politicians pass the bans anyway, often along party lines.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anyway
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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
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Monday Night Football at Lambeau Field is always a spectacle, and this game has plenty of intrigue.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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It’s always been my interest and my fascination and all of my writing, my music, my art, everything has been a side effect of that journey.Charles Moss, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
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But Martinis and his colleagues pressed on regardless, publishing a proof-of-principle experiment (opens a new tab) using five qubits in 2014.Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
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In terms of full-season production, the Cardinals have been a good play regardless, scoring 7.7 PPG, good for 10th in the NFL.Steve Bradshaw, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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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.Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2024
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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
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“Anyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anyway. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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