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anything but
Idioms and Phrases
By no means, not at all, as in He is anything but ambitious for a promotion . William yvlogsworth in his long poem, The Prelude (1805–1806), wrote: “Grief call it not, 'twas anything but that.”Example Sentences
I see Hojlund as a number nine, while Zirkzee is a nine-and-a-half to a 10 - anything but a centre-forward.
Yet, initially, Saint-Martial looks anything but modern.
The group had argued that a hike in premiums granted through anything but a formal rate hearing would set a “dangerous precedent” and violate Proposition 103, the 1988 initiative authored by its founder that regulates the state’s insurance market.
Today, it’s hard to imagine the Magnificent Mile and its surrounding blocks, with its mix of luxury new-build construction and brick pre-war walk-ups, as anything but an upper-class repository on Chicago’s North Side.
"We're not signing anything or buying anything, but we're interested."
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