in any case
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.43 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, any, case.
Example Sentences
- "Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, we can expect to be doing a lot of shoveling tomorrow."
- "Who knows how many more inches of snow will fall tonight, but in any case, let's go to bed."
- "Later Martin said, "If we ever have another baby girl, I'm going to give her a simple name like Mary Jane." When we did have another daughter, we called her Bernice Albertine, after her two grandmothers. Not quite Mary Jane, but at least named for members of the family. In any case, she is known as Bunny,"
- "The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building."
- "In any case, there are never fewer than two guards on duty here."
- "Their most popular product, an assortment of ales, is packaged such that there are always at least two bottles of India pale ale in any case."