a thing

phrase

: anything
—used in negative statements
I can't see a thing without my glasses on.
The guests will be here soon, and I don't have a thing (that is appropriate) to wear.
Don't worry about a thing. I'll take care of everything.
She doesn't look a thing like her older sister.
His new album doesn't sound a thing like his last one.

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This in turn will swell government coffers with tax revenues, making deficit concerns a thing of the past. — Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026 That’s been an actual band tradition since the mid-1990s, though audience participation has been a thing ever since Green Day's beginning. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 But if Rodgers and Newton are right about fake vaccination cards being a thing around the NFL at the time, there was apparently much bamboozling being done by a number of people. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 The Court’s oral arguments have precise protocols, but none of them governed where a President should sit in the courtroom, because no President had ever done such a thing. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for a thing

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“A thing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20thing. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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