as anything
idiom
informal
: as any person or thing
—used in the sense of "very" or "extremely" to make a statement more forceful
He was (as) calm as anything.
It was as obvious as anything that she didn't want to go.
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Scarred by a 2016 cycle that saw Hillary Clinton lose to Trump after surveys showed her far ahead, Democratic whispers grew about what would happen when Trump entered a presidential race as anything other than an underdog.
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Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
And at the center of it all, on the sport’s biggest stage, is a literal mom-and-pop shop that, less than a decade and a half ago, was struggling to find a foothold in football as anything but a joke.
—Alex Prewitt, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
But paired with Andreessen’s earlier manifesto, it could not be read as anything other than a veiled threat against the regulatory state.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Moreover, this fiat couldn’t be construed as anything but personal and punitive; after all, the diaries are available both at Cornell and at the British Library, where my own literary papers are archived—so, freely available to anyone who should wish to novelize their mother’s life.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
And at the center of it all, on the sport’s biggest stage, is a literal mom-and-pop shop that, less than a decade and a half ago, was struggling to find a foothold in football as anything but a joke.
—Alex Prewitt, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
But paired with Andreessen’s earlier manifesto, it could not be read as anything other than a veiled threat against the regulatory state.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Moreover, this fiat couldn’t be construed as anything but personal and punitive; after all, the diaries are available both at Cornell and at the British Library, where my own literary papers are archived—so, freely available to anyone who should wish to novelize their mother’s life.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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“As anything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20anything. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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