almost nothing

phrase

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

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Paid almost nothing in rent and made up for it through domestic services. Téa Mutonji, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026 Six months later, the dashboard looks healthy, and almost nothing about how the business makes decisions has changed. Boyan Wan, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Prices collapsed after 1986, domestic production was increasingly exempted, and the tax was generating almost nothing by the time it was repealed. Tibor Besedeš, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026 The problem is that HyperX has priced the keyboard in a segment where buyers are increasingly comparing membrane and mechanical products side by side, and where the price gap to a mechanical board has narrowed to almost nothing. Sascha Brodsky, PC Magazine, 11 Aug. 2026 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 23 Aug. 2026.

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