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for that matter
Idioms and Phrases
As for that, so far as that is concerned, as in For that matter I'm not too hungry . William Congreve used it in The Old Batchelour (1693; 4:22): “No, no, for that matter, when she and I part, she'll carry her separate maintenance.” [Late 1600s]Example Sentences
That a woman can be the key to her own salvation — without the help of a man, or anyone else for that matter — is still a rare thing in these films.
If the end is at hand, why worry too scrupulously over a life or two, or, for that matter, over the functioning of society?
The officer resigned from the force in 2019 while under investigation for that matter.
Without the structural principles behind catenary curves, there would be no Gothic cathedrals or Renaissance domes — nor, for that matter, any lacy spiderwebs.
"Statements by the vice president, or anyone else for that matter, didn’t factor into my vote for the CR at all," Golden said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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