at any rate
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
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In any case: anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard a previous thought or discount its importance.
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In any case: by any measure, any way one slices it; used to emphasize that a point matters no matter which instance is operative or how one looks at the situation.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see at, any, rate.
Example Sentences
- "Jim broke the window — or maybe it was John? At any rate, the window’s broken now."
- "He's stinking rich — or, at any rate, pretty well off."
- "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."
- "At any rate, in my experience, they could run like the wind, but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them."
- "At any rate, no aircraft can leave this hangar until no fewer than three inspectors have signed off on it."
- "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."