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[anything
like] or [anywhere near] {adv.} Nearly.
- Used in negative, interrogative, and
conditional sentences, often in the negative forms "nothing like" or "nowhere
near".
It's not anything like as hot today as it was yesterday.
Do you
think that gold ring is worth anywhere near a hundred dollars?
Today's game
was nowhere near as exciting as yesterday's game.
Studying that lesson
should take nothing like two hours.
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