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1used to confirm or support a point or idea just mentioned: I told you, it’s all right, and anyway, it was my fault it’s too late now anyway
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used in questions to emphasize the speaker’s wish to obtain the truth: ‘What are you doing here, anyway?’
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2used to end a conversation, to change the subject, or to resume a subject after interruption: ‘Anyway, Dot, I must dash.’
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used to pass over less significant aspects of an account in order to focus on what is important: ‘Poor John always enjoyed a drink. Anyway, he died last year.’
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3used to indicate that something happened or will happen in spite of something else: nobody invited Miss Honey to sit down but she sat down anyway