for that matter

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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]

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But anything less than big wins will undermine their exuberant claim that it's credible to see Farage in No 10 one day – and possibly, for that matter, give pollsters red faces again.

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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.

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If the end is at hand, why worry too scrupulously over a life or two, or, for that matter, over the functioning of society?

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The officer resigned from the force in 2019 while under investigation for that matter.

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Without the structural principles behind catenary curves, there would be no Gothic cathedrals or Renaissance domes — nor, for that matter, any lacy spiderwebs.

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