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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The gear shift that Wrexham were going to have to perform in the Championship was always likely to be a marked one.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025 -
The restaurant says Muriel’s resident ghosts of are harmless but, to be safe, there’s always a table reserved for Jourdan set with bread and wine.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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“Leastways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leastways. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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