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anybody

[ en-ee-bod-ee, -buhd-ee ]

pronoun

  1. any person.


noun

plural anybodies.
  1. a person of some importance:

    If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.

anybody

/ ˈɛnɪˌbɒdɪ; -bədɪ /

pronoun

  1. any person; anyone
  2. usually used with a negative or a question a person of any importance

    he isn't anybody in this town

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. often preceded by just any person at random; no matter who
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Spelling Note

The pronoun anybody is always written as one word: Is anybody home? There isn't anybody in the office. The two-word noun phrase any body means “any group” ( Any body of students will include a few dissidents ) or “any physical body” ( The search continued for a week despite the failure to find any body ). If the word a can be substituted for any without seriously affecting the meaning, the two-word noun phrase is called for: a body of students; failure to find a body. If the substitution cannot be made, the spelling is anybody. Anybody is less formal than anyone. anyone.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of anybody1

First recorded in 1250–1300, anybody is from Middle English ani bodi. See any, body
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. anybody's guess, a matter of conjecture:

    It's anybody's guess why she quit.

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Example Sentences

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However, I can’t remember anybody after Brock.

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“I’ve never known anybody else who played Major League Baseball with keratoconus. I don’t know how he sees the spin on the curveball, or fastballs.”

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A few days after that, Meta launched an update to its large language model and faced accusations that it had artificially boosted the quality of the LLaMA models’ outputs, forcing the company to issue a rejection of those rumors that didn’t really convince anybody.

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"I think I ought to make it easier for anybody who has to sort it out after I go."

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Let me preface any answer by saying, I suppose I’m trying to make sense of it like anybody.

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