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In any case   /ɪn ˈɛni keɪs/   Listen
In any case

adverb
1.
Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement.  Synonyms: anyhow, anyway, anyways, at any rate, in any event.  "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.
Making an additional point; anyway.  Synonym: besides.  "She couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her"






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"In any case" Quotes from Famous Books



... the railroad men. The railway strike itself was largely sympathetic, the ten per cent. reduction in wages assigned as its cause applying to comparatively few. The next decade witnessed continual troubles of this sort, though rarely if in any case so serious, between wage-workers and their employers in nearly all industries. The worst ones befell the manufacturing portions of the country. Strikes and lock-outs were part of the news almost every day. The causes were various. One ...
— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... the monk, calmly but firmly, "put these thoughts away from your mind. They are idle and vain imaginations. Assunta knew nothing; Vincenza did not always speak the truth. In any case, it is impossible to prove the truth of her story. It is a sin to let your mind dwell on the impossible. Your name is Bernardino Vasari, and you are to be brought up in the monastery of San Stefano by wise and pious men. Is that ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... accepts the shoddiness of background which characterizes her literary types, and reveals the fine human current that runs beneath it all. I am not sure that Miss Hurst has not diluted her substance a little too much during the past year, and in any case that danger is implicit in her method. But in "Get Ready the Wreaths" the emotional validity of her substance is absolutely unimpeachable and her handling of the situation it presents is adequate ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... paved the way for a new one when the Brownings came to live in Florence. I flatter myself that that would in any case have found some raison d'etre. But the pleasure of the two girls—girls no more in any sense—in meeting again quickened the growth of an intimacy which might otherwise have ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... A novel with Khalil Samad for a hero, if written with the same charm as this first story, would be an undoubted success. This was merely a suggestion, of course, and might not fall in with Mr. Morley's other literary plans. In any case the editor congratulated him upon the originality of his story and would look forward to publishing it in one ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice


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