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at any rate
Idioms and Phrases
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 .Example Sentences
And the board were determined to keep him, or most of them at any rate.
And at any rate, Marchand was just a part of something bigger.
That’s a defensible aesthetic, or at any rate it has been defended.
Maxine has more successfully inserted herself into Norma’s life, or at any rate into the room she occupies in a five-star nursing home, since Norma is unable to protest.
This country has not progressed, politically at any rate, since the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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