- used instead of someone in negative sentences and in questions after if/whether, and after verbs such as prevent, forbid, avoid, etc.
- Is anyone there?
- Does anyone else want to come?
- Did anyone see you?
- Hardly anyone came.
- I forbid anyone to touch that clock.
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- any person at all; it does not matter who
- Anybody can see that it's wrong.
- The exercises are so simple that almost anyone can do them.
- (in negative sentences) an important person
- She wasn't anyone before she got that job.
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