"at any rate" meaning in English

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          "text": "Jim broke the window — or maybe it was John? At any rate, the window’s broken now.",
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          "text": "He's stinking rich — or, at any rate, pretty well off.",
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          "ref": "1947 July and August, “Notes and News: Caledonian Reminiscences”, in Railway Magazine, page 256",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2008, Graham Oppy, David Dowe, “The Turing Test”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
          "text": "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?",
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        "In any case, anyway, anyhow, regardless; used to discard or qualify a previous thought."
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