having said that

idiom

: despite what one just said

Their work has been fairly good. Having said that, I still think there's a lot of room for improvement.

Examples of having said that in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, having said that, but the US military does have a tendency to create programs that then a contractor comes in, makes a decent paycheck out of that program, and then starts selling it elsewhere in the military. —Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024

But having said that…exams have made this a priority. —Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023

But having said that, Senator Lankford’s doing a good job. —ABC News, 24 Dec. 2023

But having said that, still to this day, the women adored Michael. —Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 14 Nov. 2023

However, having said that, this Administration has rattled and provoked and escalated the rhetoric from Day One. —Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023

Alan Murray: But Stacey, having said that, nobody in this room. —Fortune Editors, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023

But having said that, the basic ethos of the level of engineering and overall focus on the driving elements of the motorcar and the ownership element of the motorcar has not changed in 30 years. —Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2023

But, yes, having said that, the rest of the world is four years on. —Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2023