anything but
idiom
: not at all
He looked anything but happy.
Though he said he was happy, he looked anything but.
This problem is anything but new.
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Christina Hall may be selling her Tennessee farmhouse amid her divorce from Josh Hall, but the process is anything but easy.
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Running a successful plastic surgery practice might look glamorous from the outside, but the reality is that the journey is anything but easy.
—Sacha Obaid, M.d., Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The road to the PCP theorem had been anything but straightforward.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
An uphill climb awaits, though the summit is anything but insurmountable.
—Michael Shapiro, Chron, 29 Sep. 2024
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
Running a successful plastic surgery practice might look glamorous from the outside, but the reality is that the journey is anything but easy.
—Sacha Obaid, M.d., Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The road to the PCP theorem had been anything but straightforward.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
An uphill climb awaits, though the summit is anything but insurmountable.
—Michael Shapiro, Chron, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Anything but.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anything%20but. Accessed 22 Oct. 2024.
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