Etimology
any + one
pronoun
anyone
Any person; anybody.
Examples
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.
“[…] 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. […]”
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; […].
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