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any_more

any more

See also: anymore

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Adverb

any more (not comparable)

  1. (in negative or interrogative constructions) From a given time onwards; longer, again.
    They don't make repairable radios any more.
  2. (colloquial, chiefly Northern Ireland, US, in positive constructions) Now, from now on.
    • 1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love:
      ‘Quite absurd,’ he said. ‘Suffering bores me, any more.’
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 268:
      He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad **** anymore.
  3. To a greater extent (than).
    I don't like Braques any more than I like Picasso.

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