as in whatever
in spite of everything
the weather looked bad, but they were resolved to go on with their picnic regardless
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Relevance
as in reckless
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Recent Examples of regardless
Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
So regardless, there’s going to be another play that going to come out.
—Ben Morse and Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
And regardless, the preservative was largely removed from vaccines in 1999.
—ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025
Left unsaid: That argument may not fly and, regardless, a judge had signaled those planes should have stayed grounded.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
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Adverb
But the game is not full priced regardless, and should release for $30 this week elsewhere.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
So regardless, there’s going to be another play that going to come out.
—Ben Morse and Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025
And regardless, the preservative was largely removed from vaccines in 1999.
—ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025
Left unsaid: That argument may not fly and, regardless, a judge had signaled those planes should have stayed grounded.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regardless
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
Adjective
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An arrest warrant was obtained for Lacy for negligent homicide, felony hit-and-run and reckless operation of a vehicle.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Reinoso-Gallegos was arrested without incident and transported to Troop H where he was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, reckless driving, operating a motor vehicle at too slow speed and second-degree reckless endangerment.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The Massachusetts legislature was not completely inattentive during this time, creating new district courts in Maine and allowing the counties in Maine to vote on the issue several times, with each successive occasion garnering a greater portion of the vote.—
Made by History,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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For instance, trust will be eroded when a person demonstrates a lack of temperance, which manifests as being agitated, impatient, inattentive, rash, and anxious instead of being composed, patient, prudent, self-controlled, and calm.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Children are typically brought to the hospital after having the body rash for several days.—
Emily Baumgaertner Nunn,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Later in the episode, it’s slowly revealed that the groom and the bride also have the ringworm rash.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Sauter pleaded no contest to several charges, including vehicular homicide and careless operation of a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license resulting in death.—
Frank Fernandez,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2025
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McIlroy wasted a superb opening round with two careless double bogeys leaving him seven shots behind.—
Doug Ferguson,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Our goal is to bleed Russia dry with Ukrainian soldiers and sacrifices heedless of the industrial-scale suffering inflicted on the Ukrainian people.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
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To this day, heedless shootings at parades are not unheard of in the Big Easy.—
Maurice Carlos Ruffin,
TIME,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Raiff’s impetuous outbursts serve his babyish college kid well, and the writer-director’s honest dialogue and empathetic perspective are even more valuable.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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On the one hand, there is the impetuous, often swaggering young writer whose sometimes brash, sometimes tender personality vividly emerges from the hundred-odd poems that have come down to us.—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Twist in The Woman in the Yard Is a New Low for Trauma Horror Horror that’s really about trauma is now the norm, but there’s something particularly thoughtless about this film’s treatment of mental health.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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Nor, Miss Manners uncharacteristically assures you, is making thoughtless strangers feel better.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Regardless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regardless. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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