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FromMiddle Englisheny on,ony one, equivalent toany +‎one.

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anyone

  1. Anyperson;anybody.
    Almostanyone can change a light bulb.
    • 1891,George Bernard Shaw,Quintessence of Ibsenism:
      The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believeanyone else.
    • 1935,George Goodchild, chapter 8, inDeath on the Centre Court:
      “[…]Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. […] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then—then he smashed one after another, until I got windy—nervous as you might say. […]”
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume188, number26, page36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain whyanyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

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