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anything but

  1. By no means, not at all, as in He is anything but ambitious for a promotion. William 51Թsworth in his long poem, The Prelude (1805–1806), wrote: “Grief call it not, 'twas anything but that.”



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"I went there twice, hoping to find something - anything. But there was only water and debris," he says.

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Somebody who steps into a room and they don’t say anything, but the fact that they don’t say anything is so loud.

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"All my family were in fishing, and it was never going to be anything but the sea for Jim. He was a fisherman all his life."

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President Trump promised a new “golden age” for America, but it’s been anything but that for Los Angeles, with its dependence on trade and immigrant labor — two backbones of the region’s economy.

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Plus, voters may lack much time to focus on anything but their own work: “If you ask showrunners and producers what they’re watching, they say, ‘I’m so busy I don’t have time to watch anything.’

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