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
Feel the fear and do it anyways because the fear won’t just go away on its own.
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Melissa Houston, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
On the other, the way most Brazilian clubs have been run in recent decades is hardly a model of sustainability and decency anyways.
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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
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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Melissa Houston, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
On the other, the way most Brazilian clubs have been run in recent decades is hardly a model of sustainability and decency anyways.
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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
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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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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And regardless, immigrants seeking asylum continue to have a right to do so under both U.S. and international law.—
John A. Ragosta,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Feb. 2025
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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
Adverb
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But those who live in the area just want to play football — officially, anyway.—
Richard Amofa,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Not really, anyway, which once more tracks back to the construction of the roster.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Anyways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anyways. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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