at any rate

Example Sentences

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He simply doesn't compare to Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah, Bukayo Saka or even, this season at any rate, Chris Wood at Nottingham Forest.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025

That’s a defensible aesthetic, or at any rate it has been defended.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

In that sense, Lerner continually reminds us, “The Lights” is an object, a published book, unchangeable — in this version, at any rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

The real Ballard claims the pendant was engraved with a line from 1 Timothy 6:11; at any rate, it explains why Mel Gibson's Jesus heads on a crusade to and through Columbia to find her.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2023

‘Yes,’ said Frodo, ‘it was Strider that saved us. Yet I was afraid of him at first. Sam never quite trusted him, I think, not at any rate until we met Glorfindel.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien