anything near

idiom

: in any way : at all

—used in negative statements

The movie wasn't anything near what I expected it to be.

We don't have anything near enough time.

Examples of anything near in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While there has been progress over the past decade to diversify boards, that progress hasn’t achieved anything near parity. —

Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 10 June 2024 The invasion of 100,000 of these vehicles has been accomplished without paying anything near what the yellows have had to pay. —

Lucius Riccio, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2024 Still, in today’s fragmented TV landscape, anything near 20 million viewers is nothing to sneeze at. —

Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024 That was the beginning of his thoroughbred training life, and while there have been some dips in success, there has yet to be anything near an end. —

Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for anything near

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