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Recent Examples of anyways If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15 percent of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being propped up by the CCP. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025 The grand jury also found that despite a permit request to use the full street 50 days a year not being granted by the city, Walton had been doing so anyways. Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025 And yeah, during the challenge, you’re not allowed to use firearms anyways. Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025 But Percy, Grover, and Annabeth continue on their quest anyways. EW.com, 22 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for anyways
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anyways
Adverb
  • Wants to be sure her friends notice her new whatever-she's-wearing.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 May 2021
  • And so the Administration of Harvard, by its own admission, has taken no action whatever.
    William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 23 Oct. 2017
Adverb
  • In that scenario, California would be subsidizing productions that would’ve opted to shoot in the state regardless.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That might be a minor boost, but Chase is still Chase regardless.
    Andy Behrens, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Bryne’s performance is so brilliantly unhinged, such a thing of chaotic beauty, that the film would be worthy of study anyway.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • His seventh-inning shot settled in the left-center bleachers and crushed the Brewers, who had finally chased him from the mound by getting two runners on in the top of the inning, only to go scoreless anyway when reliever Alex Vesia escaped the jam.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025

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