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  • Mama slept and didn't wake even to say hello. Nevertheless, Esperanza sat next to her, crocheted a few rows on the blanket and told Mama about the sheds and Isabel and the strikers.  (source)
    Nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
  • He is still out there somewhere, perhaps looking for another body to share ... not truly being alive, he cannot be killed. ... Nevertheless, Harry, while you may only have delayed his return to power, it will merely take someone else who is prepared to fight what seems a losing battle next time — and if he is delayed again, and again, why, he may never return to power.  (source)
  • Today the water looks considerably lower than it looks in the photographs McCandless took twelve months ago, but to try to ford the river here, in thundering midsummer flood, is nevertheless unthinkable.  (source)
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  • He was dressed normally, but the practiced eyes of the crystal merchant could see that the boy had no money to spend. Nevertheless, the merchant decided to delay his lunch for a few minutes until the boy moved on.  (source)
    Nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
  • Only the ashes of all her fine fancies were remaining-ashes still concealing, never the less, a few red embers of hope.†  (source)
  • A worker [bee] is just over a centimeter long and weighs only about sixty milligrams; nevertheless, she can fly with a load heavier than herself.  (source)
    nevertheless = still (used to connect contrasting ideas)
  • He is too great a niggard that will werne* *forbid A man to light a candle at his lantern; He shall have never the less light, pardie.†  (source)
    never the less = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
  • The sea wasn't rough for that time of year, but nevertheless I was sick as a dog.  (source)
  • Meg tried to keep the franticness out of her voice, trying to sound as drained of feeling as Charles, but nevertheless ending on a squeak.  (source)
  • What was good news to Violet and her siblings, of course, was bad news to Count Olaf. Nevertheless, he gave everyone a grim smile.  (source)
  • The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.  (source)
    nevertheless = still (used to connect contrasting ideas)
  • I do not know if this is good or bad. Nevertheless, I am trying to participate.  (source)
    Nevertheless = despite that (used to connect contrasting ideas)
  • “It was cold and dirty,” said Mamaji. ... Nevertheless, an Olympic pool is an Olympic pool, touched by immortal glory.  (source)
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