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at_any_rate

at any rate

English

Prepositional phrase

at any rate

(conjunctive) In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard a previous thought.
Jim broke the window — or maybe it was John? At any rate, the window’s broken now.‎
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
  The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
- 1978, Daniel C. Dennett, “Where Am I?”, in Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Bradford Books:
  What moved from A to B at such speed was surely myself, or at any rate my soul or mind — the massless center of my being and home of my consciousness.
- 2008, Graham Oppy, David Dowe, “The Turing Test”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
  Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation, or, at any rate, unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us?

Translations

in any case

Chinese:
Mandarin: 無論如何 (zh), 无论如何 (zh) ‎(wúlùnrúhé)
Dutch: in ieder geval
Finnish: joka tapauksessa (fi), oli miten oli, miten vain
French: en tout état de cause (fr), en tout cas (fr)
German: auf jeden Fall (de)
Greek: εν πάση περιπτώσει (el) ‎(en pási periptósei), πάντως (el) ‎(pántos)

Irish: ar aon chaoi
Japanese: とにかく (ja) ‎(tonikaku), 何しろ ‎(なにしろ, nani shiro)
Occitan: de tot biais, en tot cas
Polish: bądź co bądź (pl)
Portuguese: em todo caso
Russian: в любо́м слу́чае (ru) ‎(v ljubóm slúčaje), во вся́ком слу́чае (ru) ‎(vo vsjákom slúčaje), так и́ли и́на́че (ru) ‎(tak íli ínáče)
Scottish Gaelic: co-dhiù
Spanish: en todo caso, de todas formas, de todas maneras, pase lo que pase

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