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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But paired with Andreessen’s earlier manifesto, it could not be read as anything other than a veiled threat against the regulatory state.
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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
Through Shelley, Coppola and Gersten make an argument that seems to need to be reiterated time and again — work centered on sexuality and women and desire is as worthy of artistic appraisal and appreciation as anything else.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
The sudden, brutal, pure-force-of-nature bear attacks in this movie are just as scary as anything the genre’s classic killers would dream up.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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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
Through Shelley, Coppola and Gersten make an argument that seems to need to be reiterated time and again — work centered on sexuality and women and desire is as worthy of artistic appraisal and appreciation as anything else.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024
The sudden, brutal, pure-force-of-nature bear attacks in this movie are just as scary as anything the genre’s classic killers would dream up.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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“As anything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20anything. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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