any more
advUK /ˌɛ.niˈmɔː/ · US /ˌɛ.niˈmɔɹ/
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From a given time onwards; longer, again.
In negative or interrogative constructions
- They don't make repairable radios any more.
- 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:
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Northern Ireland, US, Colloquial, In positive constructions Now, from now on.
- I eat fish any more.
- ‘Quite absurd,’ he said. ‘Suffering bores me, any more.’1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love:
1 more example
- He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad shit any more2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 268:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, more.
- 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.
3 more examples
- 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: