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nobody
[ noh-bod-ee, -buhd-ee, -buh-dee ]
noun
- a person of no importance, influence, or power.
nobody
/ ˈəʊəɪ /
pronoun
- no person; no-one
noun
- an insignificant person
Usage
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- like crazy (nobody's business)
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Example Sentences
While nobody was injured in that incident, a bullet crashed into the home of an elderly couple.
"He just said 'well I'm going and if nobody wants to come, fine, I'll go on my own', which of course was rather putting us to shame," said Archbishop Gallagher.
And then there's Elon Musk, the wealthy weirdo nobody in America voted for, to whom Trump gave the keys to the federal government and told him he could fire anyone he wanted to.
"There is nobody else who teaches quite like her," Ian added.
Farage admitted that he currently had nobody in mind for the job but insisted that "new talent" would emerge as the party continued to "grow" and "develop".
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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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