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.

Examples of as anything in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ex-employees felt that the spot did little to remove taboos or reframe periods as anything but a depressing hassle. —

Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 28 May 2024 Later consensus deemed it as perfect an assembly of sunny, orchestral pop as anything else from the 1960s. 6. —

Will Ainsley, SPIN, 24 May 2024 These are ghostly, arresting images, as emotional as anything Cronenberg has done. —

Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024 Unfortunately, to crack such messages, a spy needed only to get a copy of the cipher wheel, and that was as easy to intercept as anything else in the mail. —

Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024 They could be sold or repurposed for other uses as anything from recreation or senior centers to legal-service facilities for immigrants. —

Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2024 The shaded areas of the map show the approximate boundaries where air quality is available and listed as anything other than good. —

Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2024 This Round 2 wrinkle has as much to do with Porter at the four as anything else. —

Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 14 May 2024 International distributors certainly won’t have the option of trying to disguise Horizon as anything other than a Western. —

Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024

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