any day
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No particular time, as in It doesn't matter when; any day is fine with me .
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Also, any day now . Quite soon, as in I might get a call any day , or There could be a snowstorm any day now .
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Also, any day of the week . Every day, as in I could eat fresh corn any day of the week . All three senses employ any in the sense of “no matter which,” a usage dating from a.d. 1000.
Example Sentences
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Ashley Baptiste said her 5- and 3-year-old daughters “will choose sushi over pizza any day.”
He points out that Mississippi has already passed the U.K. in per capita GDP and is set to pass Germany any day now.
Bryan Wong, the chief executive of the Habitat for Humanity chapter, said the nonprofit was already wrapping up its first two houses in the Altadena area and hoped to get started on six more lots — each with a main house and an accessory dwelling unit — any day now, with a goal to be done by the new year.
From Los Angeles Times
“I go out with my band and I play typical band gigs, but I prefer being in a basement with a free jazz drummer any day of the week.”
From Los Angeles Times
Pick up a copy of this newspaper any day of the week to read about the hundreds of billions of dollars of debt being incurred in the race to build the sprawling artificial-intelligence factories called data centers.
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