anyone

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  1. pronoun Any person.
  2. usage note
    The one-word form anyone is used to mean "any person.” The two-word form any one is used to mean "whatever one (person or thing) of a group.” Anyone may join means that admission is open to everybody. Any one may join means that admission is open to one person only. When followed by of, only any one can be used: Any one (not anyone) of the boys could carry it by himself. · Anyone is often used in place of everyone in sentences like She is the most thrifty person of anyone I know. In an earlier survey 64 percent of the Usage Panel found this sentence unacceptable in writing. · Anyone and anybody are singular terms and always take a singular verb. See Usage Note at they.

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  • Particularly that bit when everyone belatedly realises that anyone from the American deep south is a depraved, potentially murderous psychopath. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Also some one mentioned a book about 1,000 most common words in Spanish - anyone knows the title and / or author.
  • Moments when, regardless of whether anyone was around to witness them, we felt the painful cringe of humiliation (our pals at shame). —  SMITH Magazine Superfeed
  • Orangetown police couldn't immediately say whether anyone was arrested in last summer's thefts.
  • Wayne Barnes will sit down with the team in Yorkshire tomorrow morning in an attempt to avoid a costly case of deja vu against France at Twickenham on Sunday week following the penalty ­epidemic which wrecked their chances of victory in Dublin. has also indicated that players who continue to infringe will put their Test places at risk but has stopped short, for now, of publicly dropping anyone from the French encounter. —  The Guardian World News
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