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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The escalating tension of that final act is as shocking and violent and viciously cold as anything in Franco’s filmography, which has seldom shied away from stark depictions of human cruelty — whether intimate in scale, like After Lucia, or encompassing explosive societal conflict, like New Order.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
That ranking says as much about the NFL’s desire for players who can fill the Micah Parsons role as anything else, but frankly, Walker was one of the most consistently explosive front-seven hammers all season.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
And the fact that desperately needed food and medicine has been made into a political football says as much about this moment as anything.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Action and atmosphere are too poorly supplied for this stab at a noirish retro thriller to emerge as anything but talky, awkward and unconvincing.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
That ranking says as much about the NFL’s desire for players who can fill the Micah Parsons role as anything else, but frankly, Walker was one of the most consistently explosive front-seven hammers all season.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
And the fact that desperately needed food and medicine has been made into a political football says as much about this moment as anything.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Feb. 2025
Action and atmosphere are too poorly supplied for this stab at a noirish retro thriller to emerge as anything but talky, awkward and unconvincing.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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“As anything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20anything. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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