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Idioms and Phrases

Many; also, no particular amount of. The meaning here depends on the context. I can give you any number of reasons for John's absence means I can offer many reasons. Any number of subscribers might stay home means that an unknown number will not attend.
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The venue, with a 5,000-person capacity just on the ground floor, was large enough to absorb any number of punks and others who wanted to attend, without leaving anyone outside to loiter or get in trouble.

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Any number of environmental injuries and insults can be justified if we believe that everything can be placed back how it was with a little innovation.

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Any number of financial indicators could tell us when prices moved into some level of equanimity with expected corporate profits, or reasonable expectations of future interest rates.

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This argument about “abortionists” has fueled any number of restrictions and bans, and now, after the fall of Roe, the same arguments are at the center of the first post-Roe prosecutions of abortion providers.

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“You could define success any number of ways,” Wellman said.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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