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View definitions for nothing but

nothing but

adverb as in all

Strongest matches

Weak match

adverb as in just

adverb as in only

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It’s an altered portable television set, stood on its side, with nothing but a bright white vertical line shining on its screen.

These kids come into our lives with nothing but love.”

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"He's extremely thin," Yaron Or told reporters, adding that his son had had "no books, no human contact - nothing", but was given a Rubik's Cube at one point.

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The stakes are only heightened, and more complicated, when you deal with people who have committed horrible crimes, people who at first glance seem to be nothing but evil.

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“My family came to Pacoima in 1952, when it was nothing but dirt roads and no streetlights,” Barnes said.

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