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at any rate

Idioms  

  1. In any event, whatever the case may be; also, at least. For example, At any rate, I promise to be there even if I'm a little late, or It may not pay well, but at any rate it's a job. [Early 1600s] Also see in any case.

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He simply doesn't compare to Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah, Bukayo Saka or even, this season at any rate, Chris Wood at Nottingham Forest.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025

That’s a defensible aesthetic, or at any rate it has been defended.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

The real Ballard claims the pendant was engraved with a line from 1 Timothy 6:11; at any rate, it explains why Mel Gibson's Jesus heads on a crusade to and through Columbia to find her.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

These are, to be sure, especially good-looking or at any rate interesting-looking humans — camera-tested, made up and coiffed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2023

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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