How to Use as anything in a Sentence

as anything

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  • So while people are dealing with it, there are things like art and laughter that are just as good a medicine as anything else.
    Hilton Dresden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 June 2024
  • While this piece of furniture is not masquerading as anything but a file cabinet, the metal piece is sturdy and well-made.
    Maya Polton, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 June 2024
  • Desserts are as complex — and easy to like — as anything else on the menu.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
  • This Round 2 wrinkle has as much to do with Porter at the four as anything else.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024
  • The choice of Stone to fill in for Williams was as much about fit as anything Hamilton did or did not do.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The sequence is as tight, mean, and poised as anything in Ellroy.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That part, of course, is as much up to his offensive line as anything.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2023
  • All are led by guys who see their roles as anything but top-down-driven.
    Dallas News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • That, as much as anything, is what the Lakers had to fight Tuesday in Utah against the short-handed Jazz.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Getting to the line is just as much a part of Ayton’s scoring uptick as anything else.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The bookends to a meal are as compelling as anything between them.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But that was the third of four straight strong outings by Ashcraft — which might be as strong a statement on the subject as anything.
    Gordon Wittenmyer, The Enquirer, 22 July 2023
  • All that seems so long ago and far away—and yet as vivid as anything that has happened to me recently.
    David Holahan, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Michael Price said the people are as important as anything to the event’s success.
    Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • But she was rarely mentioned as anything more than a footnote.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2023
  • As much as anything, Claypool is feeling valued by the Bears.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Think of this as anything that can make your complexion look less smooth or seamless.
    Danielle Jackson, Women's Health, 4 July 2023
  • No, not nearly the sexiest aspect of the one, which might have been as compelling as anything for the Heat this season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2023
  • So the tone changes a lot with episode four, and that, for me as a director, was a very exciting challenge and a bit scary as anything risky is.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • So the tone changes a lot with episode four, and that, for me as a director, was a very exciting challenge and a bit scary as anything risky is.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
  • Donald Glover and Atlanta is very much a delivery on the promise of this era as anything else.
    William Goodman, Men's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • There have been other times over the centuries where one people saw the other as anything but human.
    TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
  • As much as anything, Portugal fans wanted to see what Ronaldo would do next — and maybe last.
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  • As fate would have it, the name of the theater comes as numerically loaded as anything in Swift’s world.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Treating him as anything less would be a recipe for an early first-round playoff exit.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Rare for the beach, the hospitality is as polished as anything on the menu at this promising addition to the food scene.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • To perceive its output as anything like life, or like human thinking, is to succumb to its role play.
    Patrick House, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Those audiences are nearly as big as anything on prime-time TV, aside from football games.
    John Koblin, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • Alaska is the only part of the United States where appearances of the northern lights could be described as anything close to common.
    Nicole Clausing, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • As much as anything, just a little bit more consistent with his contact.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 3 May 2023

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