"at any rate" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} at any rate, {{en-prep phrase}} at any rate
  1. (conjunctive) In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard or qualify a previous thought. Tags: conjunctive
    Sense id: en-at_any_rate-en-prep_phrase-4GD5la20 Categories (other): English discourse markers, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Synonyms: at all events, in any event, 1947 July and August, in, page 256:At any rate, in my experience, they could run like the wind, but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them, 1978, Daniel C. Dennett, Bradford Books:What moved from A to B at such speed was surely myself, or at any rate my soul, mind (english: the massless center of my being and home of my consciousness.), 2008, Graham Oppy, David Dowe, in :Why couldn't it be the case that there are intelligent things that are unable to carry on a conversation, or, unable to carry on a conversation with creatures like us?
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          "word": "but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them"
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          "word": "or at any rate my soul"
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      "word": "1947 July and August"
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      "word": "they could run like the wind"
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      "word": "but longer and heavier trains slowly but surely became too much for them"
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