at any rate

at any rate

English

Prepositional phrase

at any rate

1. (conjunctive) In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard a previous thought.

   Jim broke the window — or maybe it was John? At any rate, the window’s broken now.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     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.

   • 1978, Daniel C. Dennett, “Where Am I?”, in Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Bradford Books:

     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.

   • 2008, Graham Oppy, David Dowe, “The Turing Test”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

     Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation, or, at any rate, unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us?

Translations

in any case

Bulgarian: както и да е (kakto i da e) Chinese: Mandarin: 無論如何 (zh), 无论如何 (zh) (wúlùnrúhé) Dutch: in ieder geval Finnish: joka tapauksessa (fi), oli miten oli, miten vain French: en tout état de cause (fr), en tout cas (fr) German: auf jeden Fall (de) Greek: εν πάση περιπτώσει (el) (en pási periptósei), πάντως (el) (pántos) Hungarian: mindenesetre (hu) Irish: ar aon chaoi, ar aon chuma, ar chuma ar bith

Japanese: とにかく (ja) (tonikaku), 何しろ (なにしろ, nani shiro) Latin: utīque Occitan: de tot biais, en tot cas Polish: bądź co bądź (pl) Portuguese: em todo caso Russian: в любо́м слу́чае (ru) (v ljubóm slúčaje), во вся́ком слу́чае (ru) (vo vsjákom slúčaje), так и́ли и́на́че (ru) (tak íli ínáče) Scottish Gaelic: co-dhiù Spanish: en todo caso, de todas formas, de todas maneras, pase lo que pase Westrobothnian: jag wejt int hȯrä hä for

Further reading

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