and anyway
idiom
: and in addition
It's too expensive, and anyway, we don't have enough time to do it.
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These aren’t real roosters — the famous Blue Heaven restaurant is still in Key West, and anyway, the city of Doral surely has regulations about that sort of thing.
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Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
Their argument is that AI is just a tool, and anyway, everyone’s going to be using it sooner or later.
—Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2025
Headlines about the late pontiff’s deteriorating health had been making the rounds, and anyway, given the criteria for the position, a papal passing is never too far-fetched.
—J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
The same way, and this guy's a military veteran, an American citizen, having real troubles both emotionally and anyway...
—USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
But that’s an easy fix, and anyway, rough patches and the occasional goof-up are part of the charm of the Peyton-and-Eli show.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Sep. 2024
Excavating the subconscious, however, has never been a Ruscha priority, and anyway this kind of flexing between flat surface and illusion is far older than Surrealism.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
Yet Bob Guccione, as financier or would-be filmmaking visionary, was never going to be the person to produce a film of this material that was going to be serious or artistically legitimate — and anyway, who outside of the bruised and betrayed collaborators who worked on it want one?
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
No one paired off or hooked up; Rebecca had a boyfriend back home, and anyway that wasn’t the point.
—Polly Stewart, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2023
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Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
Their argument is that AI is just a tool, and anyway, everyone’s going to be using it sooner or later.
—Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2025
Headlines about the late pontiff’s deteriorating health had been making the rounds, and anyway, given the criteria for the position, a papal passing is never too far-fetched.
—J.p. Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
The same way, and this guy's a military veteran, an American citizen, having real troubles both emotionally and anyway...
—USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
But that’s an easy fix, and anyway, rough patches and the occasional goof-up are part of the charm of the Peyton-and-Eli show.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 13 Sep. 2024
Excavating the subconscious, however, has never been a Ruscha priority, and anyway this kind of flexing between flat surface and illusion is far older than Surrealism.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
Yet Bob Guccione, as financier or would-be filmmaking visionary, was never going to be the person to produce a film of this material that was going to be serious or artistically legitimate — and anyway, who outside of the bruised and betrayed collaborators who worked on it want one?
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
No one paired off or hooked up; Rebecca had a boyfriend back home, and anyway that wasn’t the point.
—Polly Stewart, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2023
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“And anyway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/and%20anyway. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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