any more

UK/ˌɛ.niˈmɔː//ˌɛ.niˈmɔɹ/

any more adverb: from a given time onwards; longer, again.

Adverb

any more (not comparable)

From a given time onwards; longer, again.
- 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
Synonyms:

any longer, no longer, no more
(rhetoric) at this point (expressing exacerbation in the face of the futility of a situation)
- What are we even doing any more.
(Northern Ireland, US, colloquial) 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
Synonyms:

going forward, nowadays, anymore, as of now, from now on, hereafter, henceforth, henceforward, henceforwards, in future
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.

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:
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...
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.1966, Sally Stanford, “Prologue”, in The Lady of the House: The Autobiography of Sally Stanford, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons...
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:

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What does any more mean?: Any more means from a given time onwards; longer, again.
How do you use any more in a sentence?: He's no longer the wholesome Chamber of Commerce bigshot we used to know in the olden days, Doc, he's bad shit any more
What part of speech is any more?: Any more is an adverb.
How do you pronounce any more?: Any more is pronounced /ˌɛ.niˈmɔː/ (UK).

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