anything like

phrase

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

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No one with the Mets has seen anything like it in years, and some never have. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026 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 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 1 Sep. 2026.

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