anything like

phrase

: in any way : at all
it's not anything like as good as it used to be

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Atlanta Housing will continue outreach and monitoring the situation to ensure the resident does not have to experience anything like this again. — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 Amodei hits back Anthropic denies Amodei ever said anything like what Baker claims. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026 As far as Montoya knew, her grandmother never saw anything like the current flooding. — Tilly Robinson, IndyStar, 15 Aug. 2026 And yet organizations are not becoming effective at anything like the rate their tools are becoming cheap. — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for anything like

Word History

First Known Use

1529, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of anything like was in 1529

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“Anything like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anything%20like. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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