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in any event

adv. at any rate, anyhow

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in any event

adv. used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"; "anyway, there is another factor to consider"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it" [syn: anyhow, anyway, in any case, at any rate]

Usage examples of "in any event".

If you got a flack on the line, he or she would tell you that your life was actually fine, that there was not a thing wrong with it, and in any event it would be a lot better after the next upgrade was rolled out.

She had a story about everything, saw hidden meanings in any event no matter how commonplace.

Having decided that, on account of the proximity of the dragons, a man must in any event be on the watch, they did not set the protection-wires.

The innovations might be new technology straight from the research department, or they might be in the category of bells and whistles, but in any event they are frequently useful and they seem to make users happy.

Most of Lutz's advisers were nonentities, in any event- except for those like Huggins, who were outright thugs.

By that time, in any event, we had made the discovery which was to become the basis of our lives and purposes from then onward, and knew that we should have to return home very shortly.

Im afraid you may have given our plot away in any event, Belisarius.

They couldn't take a message through, and in any event, Pip wouldn't leave me in my current state of mind.