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You might want to get a newer dictionary.

For one... There is no such thing as "Trump administration" yet.

Errrr... he's been inaugurated. "The administration" is the accepted way of referring to the executive branch of the U.S. government.

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I believe you mean "incented," not "incited," and ... bad news.

Any child will see that "any way" refers to any kind of "way", and "way" is a noun. It's not "anychild", is it?

anyway
adv.
1. In any way or manner whatever: Get the job done anyway you can.
2. In any case; at least: I don't know if it was lost or stolen; anyway, it's gone.
3. Nevertheless; regardless: It was raining but they played the game anyway.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Anyway, adverb. I can keep linking to this until your eyes bleed, and you still haven't shown that it's wrong.

You may want to consult an actual English teacher for this one. It's obvious that you don't understand English grammar, sentence structure, or how to read a dictionary.

It's a adverb, you turd.

anyway
adv.
1. In any way or manner whatever: Get the job done anyway you can.
2. In any case; at least: I don't know if it was lost or stolen; anyway, it's gone.
3. Nevertheless; regardless: It was raining but they played the game anyway.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

You've studiously avoided dealing with that definition and example, but until Houghton Mifflin Harcourt declares that you're correct and retracts it, I have no reason to consider myself wrong.

Multiple dictionaries and thousands of examples written by professional writers in popular media are indeed right because there are thousand of them. English is a language principally established by convention, not by proscriptive rules. The examples are not only relevant, they are the quintessential measure of whether a use is accepted or not.

You claim that there is no adverb there -- so diagram that sentence. What does "anyway" (or "any way") do in the sentence? If it is not an adverb, then what is it?

Also, your own example disproves your point. "Anyway they can" is not the same as saying "by any method [that] they can" because you've expressly changed the grammar, adding the preposition "by" and changing the form to an object with the adjective "any" and the noun "way" to create a prepositional adverb. Even though the two are "like" each other, you cannot simply drop the object of the prepositional phrase back in the original sentence and have it be correct - it is not "Cisco Seen As Trying To Slow Down Arista Any Method They Can With Patent Lawsuits." It would be "Cisco Seen As Trying To 'Slow Down Arista By Any Method [That] They Can With Patent Lawsuits."

"Any method, "any subterfuge," and "any law" are objects, not adverbs. You cannot properly drop any of those into the sentence without adding an omitted preposition. The issue is neither merely in my mind nor obfuscation. You simply don't know what you're doing.

The dictionary example is precisely on point:
anyway
adv.
1. In any way or manner whatever: Get the job done anyway you can.

The word can be properly written as "anyway," and you're simply going to have to learn to live with that fact.

Conflicting authority. Grammerly.com can go to the same hell reserved for reformers attempting to eradicate "ain't" and the split infinitive.

According to Merriam-Webster it means "healthy and attractive with large breasts," and per American Heritage definition 1b "full-bosomed." So there's nothing wrong with using "buxom" to describe a woman like this.

Bad Grammar Nazi loses war: http://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=thusly

preventative

Stop it. The word is preventive.

Unless, of course, the word is "preventative":

http://grammarist.com/spelling/preventative-preventive/

Preventative vs. preventive
Preventive is the original adjective corresponding to prevent, but preventative has gained ground and is now a common variant. The two share all their definitions.

http://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=preventative&submit.x=41&submit.y=12

preventive (pr-vntv) also preventative (-t-tv)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preventative

preventative adjective

concerned with or serving to keep something from happening
Synonyms precautionary, preventative, prophylactic

Interestingly, the Merriam Webster Thesaurus doesn't even mention preventive as a synonym for preventative

Of course, if you're on a mission to eliminate a widely used word from the English Language, well, I wish you luck.

HTML5 video is quite stable and drastically more performant.

Performant is not a word.

Considering how little priority the USA gives to education, isn't that pretty much one in the same?

I refer you to the American Heritage Dictionary