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anybody
[ en-ee-bod-ee, -buhd-ee ]
pronoun
- any person.
noun
- a person of some importance:
If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
anybody
/ ˈɛnɪˌbɒdɪ; -bədɪ /
pronoun
- any person; anyone
- usually used with a negative or a question a person of any importance
he isn't anybody in this town
noun
- often preceded by just any person at random; no matter who
Usage Note
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Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- anybody's guess, a matter of conjecture:
It's anybody's guess why she quit.
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Example Sentences
However, I can’t remember anybody after Brock.
“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.”
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.
"I think I ought to make it easier for anybody who has to sort it out after I go."
Let me preface any answer by saying, I suppose I’m trying to make sense of it like anybody.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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