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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
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Idioms and Phrases
- anybody's guess, a matter of conjecture:
It's anybody's guess why she quit.
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Example Sentences
I remember all our music appeared on Spotify overnight, without anybody asking us.
As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.
“Any time you put a foreign substance into anybody you have the potential for an adverse event,” Geisbert reminds.
“He has one of the most unabashedly pro-life records as anybody in the field,” said Mackowiak.
I harbor a rock ‘n’ roll fantasy, just like anybody, and I welcomed the challenge.
She would never forget it; but realizing its gravity, she decided thereupon never to tell it—the dream—to anybody.
Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.
It's quite true the land can't run away, but there are always rows and revolutions and smashes going on; you can't trust anybody.
Why, 'pon my word, I'm bound to say that I'm just as much in the dark as anybody else, if it comes to that!
Never did I feel leaving anybody or any place so much, and Berlin seems to me like a great roaring wilderness.
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