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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His weight of pass and slipperiness on the ball are as good as anything, resulting from an appreciation for the game that has come with maturity.
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Henry Flynn, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In his creaky, earthy style, Frost was ushering in something just as shock-of-the-new as anything the modernists would produce.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
The escalating tension of that final act is as shocking and violent and viciously cold as anything in Franco’s filmography, which has seldom shied away from stark depictions of human cruelty — whether intimate in scale, like After Lucia, or encompassing explosive societal conflict, like New Order.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
That ranking says as much about the NFL’s desire for players who can fill the Micah Parsons role as anything else, but frankly, Walker was one of the most consistently explosive front-seven hammers all season.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
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Henry Flynn, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
In his creaky, earthy style, Frost was ushering in something just as shock-of-the-new as anything the modernists would produce.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
The escalating tension of that final act is as shocking and violent and viciously cold as anything in Franco’s filmography, which has seldom shied away from stark depictions of human cruelty — whether intimate in scale, like After Lucia, or encompassing explosive societal conflict, like New Order.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2025
That ranking says as much about the NFL’s desire for players who can fill the Micah Parsons role as anything else, but frankly, Walker was one of the most consistently explosive front-seven hammers all season.
—Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
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“As anything.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20anything. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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