Word info

anywhere near

Adverb

Meaning

anywhere near (not comparable)

(in negative statements or questions) at all near
Is it anywhere near ready?
I don't think it's anywhere near as good

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. Steven Wright

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard E. Byrd

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. Alice Munro

There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile. Camille Paglia

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. Donald Trump

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker. H. L. Mencken

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