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if anything
Idioms and Phrases
If at all, if in any degree. For example, If anything, we have too much food rather than too little . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
She won't be afraid of making difficult calls here if anything doesn't align with the vision.
Since your husband died the month that the two provisions stopped applying, the amount Social Security may owe him retroactively is likely small, if anything.
We'll need far more spacecraft to figure out if anything living lies under the crust of these worlds, but in the meantime, Antarctica serves as a handy analog to figure out the limits of life.
Snell, his wife and infant son were not home at the time of their break-in, and it is unclear from a police report what, if anything, was stolen.
His belief that the allies should be paying America for their defense has now evolved into a full-fledged protection racket in which he is using these tariffs to say "nice little country you have here, be a shame if anything happened to it."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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