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not anything like

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  1. Also, nothing like; not anywhere near; nowhere near. Quite different from, far from; also, not nearly. For example, The town's library isn't anything like the university's library, or His outfit was nothing like his brother's, or It isn't anything like as cold as it was last winter, or That movie isn't anywhere near as exciting as I thought it would be, or Her diamond is nowhere near as big as mine. The phrases with like date from the late 1700s, and those with near from the mid-1400s.


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“It’s still not anything like what we saw prepandemic. It’s cooling from a boil to a rolling simmer. And that’s not enough.”

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2022

“He hasn’t done any activity of going to war or anything. It was not anything like that.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 26, 2022

The cause of this embetterment came from nature, he argued, not anything like industrial carbon dioxide pollution.

From Slate Dec. 20, 2021

She called Maxwell a "scapegoat," and added, "She is not Jeffrey Epstein. She is not anything like Jeffrey Epstein."

From Salon Nov. 30, 2021

I kept thinking, though, that this was not anything like how Mama and Daddy had told me school was going to be, and I believed that was not a good sign.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

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