by any stretch

With its barred windows and fading paper signs announcing the various forms of its artery cloggers du jour, it couldn't by any stretch be called inviting.

2011, Marcia Clark, Guilt By Association

I can see nothing in that case which supports the proposition that a right conferred on an individual by the articles of a company to remain as president until removed in general meeting, and which is unrelated to any shareholding, can, by any stretch, be described as a class right.

2011, Alan J. Dignam, Andrew Hicks, Hicks & Goo's Cases and Materials on Company Law, page 464

I wasn't genetically tied to her by any stretch which gave me some comfort.

2014, Emivita -, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil

But Louie Ray's mama was a gem, and while the Kirklands weren't rich by any stretch, they were a little better off than us.

2017, Frank Griffin, Touched by Fire, page 75