as in always
whatever else is done or is the case
the minister is fixing to get married, leastways that's what everyone at the diner was saying
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Blood is always poised and ready to clot, because the body sees this as a life-saving mechanism.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025 -
Also, their mutual affection didn’t always arrive at the same time for each of them.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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Netflix had offered the best of both worlds—access to a nation-wide streaming audience, plus a level of theatrical play commensurate with what the movie would have received from a traditional art-house distributor anyway.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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There’s nothing going on outside anyway.—
Zuzana Říhová,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Leastways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leastways. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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