anything but

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

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Michael Horton, who played her character’s nephew, once explained to me: “Angela was certainly progressive, so no way Jessica was going to be anything but that.”

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“These are team players who don’t want anything but to do good in the world. They’re not interested in politics. These are the very kinds of people we should be celebrating.”

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When stocks rally, that reflects expectations for larger future profits, which means shares can slide if a company does anything but report results that beat estimates by a large amount.

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But the Brewers, who entered Tuesday sitting four victories away from securing a spot in the World Series for the first time since 1982, are anything but ordinary.

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And mind you, those guys on my road are anything but aberrations.

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