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anyway

adverb

in any case; anyhow; nonetheless; regardless: Whether you like it or not, I’m going anyway.
(used to continue or resume the thread of a story or account): Anyway, we finally found a plumber who could come right over.

adverb

in any case; at any rate; nevertheless; anyhow
in a careless or haphazard manner
Usually any way . in any manner; by any means

adv.

1560s, any way “in any manner;” variant any ways (with adverbial genitive) attested from c.1560. One-word form predominated from 1830s. As an adverbial conjunction, from 1859. Middle English in this sense had ani-gates “in any way, somehow” (c.1400).