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1. Without any other possible opinion; undeniably; unquestionably.
   • I respectfully suggest that it is on any view wrong to introduce into this branch of the criminal law questions whether particular contracts are void or voidable on the grounds of mistake or fraud or whether any mistake is sufficiently fundamental to vitiate a contract. 2013, Michael Allen, Textbook on Criminal Law, page 334:
   • It is not and cannot be suggested that that part of the cargo was suitable for any use without being treated. It follows, in my judgment, that on any view of the meaning of merchantable quality this cargo was not merchantable. 2016, Andrea Lista, International Commercial Sales:
   • One explanation for falling crime rates in certain categories is undoubtedly that there are fewer police officers to make arrests, fewer prosecutors to bring charges and fewer courts to sentence offenders. But, on any view, the figures show that reduced use of custody does not mean big increases in crime by children – quite the opposite. 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian:
   • There would on any view be important problems of citizenship, as the ways of operating of an individual within a community, but what I am suggesting is that the theories in question are opposed to any real or active citizenship, that active citizenship is a function of the plurality of social activities, of the clash of ways of living. 2007, John Anderson, Creagh McLean Cole, Lectures on Political Theory: 1941-45:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, any, view.
   • While you can use font(_:) on any view because it is a component of the View protocol, you can use bold() only on Text views 2022, Sufyan bin Uzayr, Mastering Swift: A Beginner's Guide: