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leastways

adverb

ˈlēst-ˌwāz

Definition of leastways

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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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MacMahon transformed Ramanujan’s formulas into two kinds of partitions that looked nothing alike, but whose counts always came out identical.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
The Austin ensemble makes minimalism feel enveloping and unruly on its latest record, where new melodic details are always emerging from a swarming mass of sound.

— Vanessa Ague, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026

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