almost nothing

idiom

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

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But almost nothing is coming easily. Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025 For Jay Gatsby, a man of immense wealth and few scruples, almost nothing is beyond his voracious appetite for excess. David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2025 That’s almost nothing because Amaya Battle, Mara Braun, Mallory Heyer and Nia Holloway were certainly part of the program’s resurgence. John Shipley, Twin Cities, 28 Oct. 2025 The raw quantity of time one spends in the thrall of screens says almost nothing about the value of the time spent. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 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 9 Nov. 2025.

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