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anywhere
[ en-ee-hwair, -wair ]
adverb
- in, at, or to any place.
- to any extent; to some degree:
Does my answer come anywhere near the right one?
noun
- any place or direction:
They knew the attack could come from anywhere.
anywhere
/ ˈɛɪˌɛə /
adverb
- in, at, or to any place
- get anywhereto be successful
it took three years before he got anywhere
- anywhere fromany quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit
he could be anywhere from 40 to 50 years old
Spelling Note
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- get anywhere, to achieve success:
You'll never get anywhere with that attitude!
Example Sentences
“That’s something I’ve never really seen anywhere else in the world. And it’s hard to explain unless you go to Mexico and you live it.”
Better preparation can limit the damage by making the country more resilient, but the CCC says this is not happening at anywhere near the required pace.
The first Low Tide Event was held in 2015 and Mr Matthews said organisers wanted to do "something you can't do anywhere else in the world".
In fact, Catholicism is expanding more rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa today than anywhere else.
The app’s 3.5 million global users post photos of fauna and flora from anywhere fauna and flora are found — urban parks, suburban backyards, mountaintops.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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