any more

alternative US anymore

1. not comparableFrom a given time onwards; longer, again.

   They don't make repairable radios any more.

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   Sonny came round to childsit today. (Not babysit. I’m not a baby any more – thank you very much!)

   2005 June 30, Malorie Blackman, “Callie Rose is 11”, in Checkmate (Noughts & Crosses; 3), London: Corgi Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 174

   Synonyms: any longer, no longer, no more

2. not comparablerhetoricat this point (expressing exacerbation in the face of the futility of a situation)

   What are we even doing any more.

3. Northern IrelandUScolloquialnot comparableNow, from now on.

   I eat fish any more.

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   ‘Quite absurd,’ he said. ‘Suffering bores me, any more.’

   1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love

   He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad shit any more

   2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 268

   Synonyms: going forward, nowadays, anymore, as of now, from now on, going forward, hereafter, henceforth

4. not comparableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, more.

   If we laugh any more in class, we're gonna get expelled.

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   Alice doesn't like Braque any more than she likes Picasso.

   (as determiner or pronoun) I can't see any more people arriving; I don't think any more (of them) want to come.

   My Lord, I deſire that if the Priſoner have any more Queſtions to ask me he may do it, becauſe the Croud is great, and I would go out.

   1681 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), [Titus] Oates, quotee, “[…] Edward Fitz-Harris Was Brought to the Barr of the Court of Kings-Bench; and the Court Being Sate, Proceeded Thus.”, in The Tryal and Condemnation of Edw. Fitz-Harris, […]. As Also the Tryal and Condemnation of Dʳ Oliver Plunket, […], London: […] Francis Tyton, and Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, page 28

   I DIDN’T set out to be a madam any more than Arthur Michael Ramsey, when he was a kid, set out to be Archbishop of Canterbury. Things just happened to both of us, I guess.

   1966, Sally Stanford, “Prologue”, in The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, page 9

   Oxfordshire County Council said it would not implement any more LTNs without consulting residents.

   2021 June 19, “Hundreds protest over Oxford Low Traffic Neighbourhoods”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2021