if anything

Idioms

If at all, if in any degree. For example, If anything, we have too much food rather than too little. [Early 1800s]

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if anything

Kagan responds that Location History is, if anything, even more revealing because it records a person’s location roughly every two minutes rather than whenever a phone connects to a cellular tower.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

McLaren qualified only sixth and seventh, Lando Norris ahead of Oscar Piastri, but Norris looked if anything competitive with Mercedes on the race-simulation runs in Friday practice.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

I don’t know what else Leech was guilty of, if anything.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

I think people tend to speak more freely when not so many eyes are on them so if anything, I’m saying this now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

He ran hard along the gravel shoulder of the oil-top road, racing against the knowledge that if anything had happened to his kids or to Naomi, he’d be to blame.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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