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almost nothing

idiom

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

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New York — Three prominent investors with almost nothing in common are dumping their shares of Nvidia, the computer chip juggernaut that went from relative obscurity to the world’s first $5 trillion valuation in just three years. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025 Based on the video game from Bethesda Game Studios, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Denise Petski, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025 Providing care with almost nothing is one of the hardest things that any person can ever do. NPR, 8 Nov. 2025 Snow along Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shorelines is driven by what's known as lake effect, a phenomenon in which moisture-laden air drops heavy snow in some places downwind from large bodies of water while other areas receive almost nothing. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 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 27 Nov. 2025.

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