almost nothing

idiom

: hardly anything
There's almost nothing in the fridge.

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There is almost nothing keeping these two apart, so rote conflicts must be invented — notably a crisis around the two-thirds mark that involves a minor character, and presents a relationship speed-bump hardly potent enough to set our protagonists cheating on one another. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025 There was almost nothing else like his work in the Sacramento Valley, Martin said. Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 21 Jan. 2025 Because of the listing, almost nothing about the building can be changed. Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 The fast-moving nature of the fire meant there was almost nothing firefighters could do to halt its progress or save the thousands of homes set alight. Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for almost nothing 

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“Almost nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almost%20nothing. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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