Meaning of in any case in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Adverb
    1. Definitions

  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Adverb

    in any case

    Definitions

    1. used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement

    Examples

    • « Anyhow, he is dead now »
    • « I think they're asleep »
    • « anyhow, they're quiet »
    • « I don't know what happened to it »
    • « anyway, it's gone »
    • « anyway, there is another factor to consider »
  2. 2. making an additional point

    Examples

    • « anyway »
    • « I don't want to go to a restaurant »
    • « besides, we can't afford it »
    • « she couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her »

Famous quotes

  • « The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. »
    Alice Walker
  • « I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function. »
    Cat Deeley
  • « It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. »
    James A. Baldwin
  • « To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. »
    Albert Camus
  • « Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? »
    Peter Lewis Allen

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