Adverbs as discourse markers (anyway, finally)
Discourse markers organise longer pieces of conversation or text. They can mark the openings or closings of conversations, changes in topics, and other functions connected with organising a conversation or text. Most discourse markers belong to the class of adverbs. …

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anyway
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈen·iˌweɪ/(infmlanyhow)
not considering other facts or conditions; considered independently, without being influenced by other things:
Of course I don’t mind taking you home – I’m going that way anyway.
The economy was slowing down anyway, so there was no need to worry about inflation.
In conversation, anyway is often used to support or explain a previous statement:
So, you’re right, there are very few black quarterbacks in football, or at least that are starting anyway.
In conversation, anyway is often used to change the subject, return to an earlier subject, or get to the most interesting point, and is also used to take up time so that you can decide what to say next:
So anyway, what are you going to do tonight?
Anyway, in the end we just agreed to stop seeing each other.

Examples of anyway

anyway
Many would have been excluded for small population anyway.
Any such cabinets would be equally good for the prime minister, for they would be turned down by the president anyway.
Nowadays most value theorists (in economics, anyway) tend (officially, anyway) to be subjectivists of one sort or another.
Anyway, how to reconcile individual rationality and group achievements?
I don't think she would have that anyway.
A separate grammar for patterns would therefore have to duplicate much of the expression language anyway.
Moreover, it is a coincidence that, if all alternatives are computed anyway, the simplest derivation is chosen, rather than any other.
I know it will come back on me anyway.
I don't see why they have an asthma clinic anyway.
Anyway, as the elements of the unknown vector are not independent from each other, nonlinear optimisation could be applied to recover more accurate estimations.
Most positive snips had only 1 microfilaria anyway.
Anyway, do lawyers involved in personal injury claims really want to read a textbook on somatoform disorders ?
Anyway, a set is determined by its members and bar-members, as the following axiom states.
With a text like that, you have to learn the whole text anyway.
Knowing where the lease came from didn't help with their daily routine, but it was enlightening and interesting to that audience anyway.
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