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anyhow

[en-ee-hou] / ˈɛn iˌhaʊ /


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Most people can focus only for three or four hours at a stretch, anyhow, so trying to work for eight solid hours isn’t really an effective use of your attention span.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 25, 2026

Fulham will have Alex Iwobi, Samuel Chukwueze and Calvin Bassey back from the Africa Cup of Nations, and I am not reading too much into their last-gasp defeat at Leeds last week anyhow.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2026

The purpose of abolition is, in part, accountability for the crimes its agents and administrators have committed, but it would be a worthy and necessary goal anyhow.

From Slate Jan. 12, 2026

In reality, we can’t just swap bodies to find out — but love beckons us to try anyhow.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2024

Or anyhow so it must seem to them.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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