anything but

idiom

: not at all
He looked anything but happy.
Though he said he was happy, he looked anything but.
This problem is anything but new.

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But the razor-thin margins across the polls means the outcome of tomorrow's election is anything but certain. Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024 The Asia Pacific Cross-border Payment Landscape Today: A Patchwork of Initiatives Asia’s cross-border payment landscape is anything but uniform. Zennon Kapron, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024 Create an elevated space that's anything but stuffy with these decorating and design ideas. Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2024 And a month into his tenure, those fears have been anything but quelled. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for anything but 

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“Anything but.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anything%20but. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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