as in whatever
in spite of everything
the weather looked bad, but they were resolved to go on with their picnic regardless
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as in reckless
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Recent Examples of regardless
Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
What is the point of the enhancements to the academy setup if the club’s best players are going to be picked off like this regardless?
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
And though all eyes are on the QB with the Giants’ No. 3 selection, Schoen knows the team is in a good position regardless.
—Charlotte Carroll, The Athletic, 29 Jan. 2025
The Rams likely have to spend a top pick on an offensive tackle regardless with Havenstein being toward the end of his career.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025
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By providing that access, USAID may have violated the Privacy Act of 1974, three experts on the law told ProPublica, regardless if the engineers were government employees at the time.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
What is the point of the enhancements to the academy setup if the club’s best players are going to be picked off like this regardless?
—Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 8 Feb. 2025
And though all eyes are on the QB with the Giants’ No. 3 selection, Schoen knows the team is in a good position regardless.
—Charlotte Carroll, The Athletic, 29 Jan. 2025
The Rams likely have to spend a top pick on an offensive tackle regardless with Havenstein being toward the end of his career.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regardless
Adverb
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Wants to be sure her friends notice her new whatever-she's-wearing.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 May 2021
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And so the Administration of Harvard, by its own admission, has taken no action whatever.—
William F. Buckley Jr.,
National Review,
23 Oct. 2017
Adjective
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This is the Republican Party under Trump: shrugging off the well-being of Veterans while pushing reckless cuts.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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He was arrested on charges of disobeying the signal of an officer, failure to maintain lane, reckless driving, passing on the right, interfering with an officer and first-degree reckless endangerment.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Over the years, Trong and his allies have promoted an image of the United States as evil and inattentive to Hanoi’s needs.—
David Brown,
Foreign Affairs,
29 June 2015
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An inattentive public might simply see a Washington melee—the disrupters against the bureaucrats.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Vasculitis rash: Vasculitis is a condition that causes blood vessels underneath the skin to swell.—
Cristina Mutchler,
Health,
6 Mar. 2025
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Across the board, a measles rash also tends to give skin a pebbly or sandpapery texture as the spots multiply and get more consolidated, Dr. Lovins says.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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She was charged with a DUI and DWI, negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner, endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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On March 19, 2024, Huger was charged with a DUI and DWI on the counts of: negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner, endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.—
Gabriela Silva,
TVLine,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Such moves would transform him from a successful entrepreneur and political adviser into something far more problematic: a billionaire wielding government power for personal gain, heedless of the dire threat to important government institutions and government functions.—
Zachary Karabell,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Feb. 2025
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Young conservatives were favored, heedless of experience.—
Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The sometimes impetuous Nasser and the reserved and uncharismatic Hasan al-Hudaybi, the Brotherhood’s general guide (the top official) at this time, grew to hate each other in the years immediately following the revolution.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2018
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Sheinbaum must walk a fine line between her constituents, who don’t want to see Mexico humiliated — or go broke — and the unpredictable, impetuous Trump.—
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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As has happened so often with the Trump White House’s thoughtless policy decisions, this one was reversed a day later.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
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Others might tear mercilessly into someone though the criticism is based principally on thoughtless emotional baggage and has no true bearing on the matter at hand.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Regardless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regardless. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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