almost nothing

idiom

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

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There is almost nothing the parties in this agree on. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025 When SARS-CoV-2, the virus that sparked the coronavirus pandemic, first spilled into humans, almost nothing stood in its way. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025 The public knows almost nothing about the objects, but the Pentagon did reject a claim from Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., claiming they were related to an Iranian operation. Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024 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 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 16 Feb. 2025.

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