Definitions for at any rate
at any rate

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1. anyhow, anyway, anyways, in any case, at any rate, in any eventadverb

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

   "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"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it"

2. at least, leastways, leastwise, at any rateadverb

   if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)

   "at least he survived"; "they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary"; "the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching"

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1. at any rateadverb

   In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard a previous thought.

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1. at any rate

   "At any rate" is a phrase used to transition or indicate a change in conversation or to summarize. It can mean "whatever happens", "in any case", or "at least" when used in different contexts. It's often used as a method to return to a main point, or to minimize the importance of the preceding statement.

How to pronounce at any rate?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of at any rate in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of at any rate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of at any rate in a Sentence

1. Vladimir Putin:

   At any rate, we are ready for this, i believe that the ball is in America’s court.

2. James Comer:

   He certainly needs better judgment in who he dines with, i know he’s issued a statement and said he did n’t know who those people were, but, at any rate, my focus is going to be investigating the current administration as the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee and try to get a handle on the massive amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

4. Mark McCloskey:

   It’s the value of the Second Amendment, it’s kind of humorous for me at any rate, the charge they finally settled on for me, because it’s exactly what I did do. That’s the whole point of the Second Amendment. We stood out there with guns, and that placed them in imminent fear of physical injury, and they back off.

5. Ezra Loomis Pound:

   Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=at any rate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/At_Any_Rate
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