any more
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Adverb
any more (not comparable)
- In negative or interrogative constructions: from a given time onwards; longer, again.
- They don't make repairable radios any more.
- (colloquial, chiefly Northern Ireland, US) In positive constructions: now, from now on.
- 1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love:
- ‘Quite absurd,’ he said. ‘Suffering bores me, any more.’
- 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 268:
- He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad shit anymore.
- 1920, DH Lawrence, Women in Love:
- To a greater extent (than).
- I don't like Braques any more than I like Picasso.