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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at any rate

And the board were determined to keep him, or most of them at any rate.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

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’m no longer completely convinced by the ½ camp, at any rate.

From Scientific American ● May 4, 2023

But it has also produced a sustained reaction or counterimage of Poe as a tragic hero, a tortured, misunderstood artist who was too good – or, at any rate, too cool – for his world.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023

It is thus quite possible that he learned of this plant in Bree, where now, at any rate, it grows well on the south slopes of the hill.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Related Words

• anyhow
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