as anything
idiom
informal
: as any person or thing
—used in the sense of "very" or "extremely" to make a statement more forceful
He was (as) calm as anything.
It was as obvious as anything that she didn't want to go.
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The Kickstarter is as much about showing support for potential partners (like Netflix or its rivals Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and so forth) as anything.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
The White House social media accounts and Trump’s own POTUS platforms have consistently used memes to depict Trump as anything from the classic superhero Superman to the Pope.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 20 July 2025
And while tax credits spearheaded by then-Gov. Deval Patrick probably had as much to do with it as anything that O’Brien said, Hollywood soon returned, shooting movies like the Bruce Willis starrer Surrogates, the Mel Gibson vehicle Edge of Darkness and Ben Affleck’s The Town in the late 2000s.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
November 2010 Tesla’s 62% rally in its fifth full month as a public company was as much a sign of early volatility as anything else.
—Ari Levy,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 June 2025
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
The White House social media accounts and Trump’s own POTUS platforms have consistently used memes to depict Trump as anything from the classic superhero Superman to the Pope.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 20 July 2025
And while tax credits spearheaded by then-Gov. Deval Patrick probably had as much to do with it as anything that O’Brien said, Hollywood soon returned, shooting movies like the Bruce Willis starrer Surrogates, the Mel Gibson vehicle Edge of Darkness and Ben Affleck’s The Town in the late 2000s.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
November 2010 Tesla’s 62% rally in its fifth full month as a public company was as much a sign of early volatility as anything else.
—Ari Levy,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 June 2025
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“As anything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20anything. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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