at any rate
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at any rate
whatever happens or may have happened:
｟話｠ とにかく, いずれにせよ(anyway); 少なくとも(at least) (!at any rateと発音すると文字通り「どんな速度［率, 級］でも」となる)
e.g. for the moment, at any rate, he was safe.
used to indicate that one is correcting or clarifying a previous statement or emphasizing a following one:
e.g. the story, or at any rate, a public version of it, was known and remembered.
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