or anything

idiom

informal
: or a similar thing
Do you want some pretzels or anything?

Examples of or anything in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The sketch-heavy show didn’t try to surround her with a bunch of cameos or five-timers jackets or anything gimmicky this week. Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2024 Don’t be tempted to fill up space with logs, branches, leaves, plastic bottles, gravel or anything else. Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024 This bears emphasis: Do not use an LLM chatbot to create legal documents or anything that really needs a lawyer or other professional’s touch. Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024 This is not really an attack on anyone or anything. Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 26 Apr. 2024 Not a single question about the making of my film, nor my inspirations or anything else. Zack Sharf, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024 Vulnerable populations, such as anyone who experiences respiratory disorders or anything that can otherwise inhibit their breathing, should take heed of daily air quality, which can be found on the AirNow government website. The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2024 Neither preferential college admissions nor affirmative action in hiring or anything else drew crowd approval like cash. Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024 But, that was not something that didn’t happen because of production or anything. EW.com, 22 Apr. 2024

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“Or anything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/or%20anything. Accessed 12 May. 2024.

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