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for better or for worse

adverb

  1. whether the outcome is good or bad.
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Wiktionary

adv

  1. Alternative form of for better or worse.

    This wouldn't have worked as well in, say, 1967. In that America, many white people called racists by this kind of person, for better or for worse, would have just taken a sip of their cocktail and said, “I don't think so at all.” Or even just “Fuck you!”