at any cost

English

Adverb

at any cost (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of at all costs.
    • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: On the Proper Conduct of War Against the Kett, Task: Laws and Customs:
      "Though we face an enemy that will not stop until out entire civilization ceases to exist, it's important we not abandon the principles of basic morality. The kett must be defeated, but not at any cost. It won't matter if our future generations can live without fear or death or enslavement, if that freedom was achieved through genocide or other barbaric crimes..."
    • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      From an operational nuclear facility, Sellafield turned into a full-time storage depot – but an uncanny, precarious one, filled with toxic nuclear waste that has to be kept contained at any cost.
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