anyone

CEFRA1

/ˈɛ.niˌwʌn/

pronoun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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It's not something anyone can do.
Almost anyone can change a light bulb.
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
1891, George Bernard Shaw, Quintessence of Ibsenism
“[…] 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. […]”
1935, George Goodchild, chapter 8, in Death on the Centre Court
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone 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; […].
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

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From Middle English eny on, ony one. By surface analysis, any + one.