be any good

idiom

: to be useful or helpful
Would an apology be any good?

Examples of be any good in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Far fewer still bet on anything coming out at this late date would be any good, if the original recordings sat in the vault this long. Chris Willman, Variety, 30 June 2024 But even with those boosts to size and strength, could waves on Titan actually be any good for surfing? Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024 If the Mets are going to be any good, Edwin Diaz still needs to be great. Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2024 Nobody took me seriously or expected [it] to be any good. Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023 These AIs will never be any good at creating draft scripts—even of the most formulaic programming—unless their training set includes a giant library of Hollywood scripts. Roger McNamee, WIRED, 19 July 2023 So far, there isn’t really a one-size-fits-all definition, leaving us with awkward, sad experiments that are disconnected from a broader virtual world, ultimately making proposals like the MLB’s feel like a 90s-era internet promise that may or may not be any good. Wes Davis, The Verge, 5 July 2023 There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for it, because this is a little dead-end street that goes to the ocean. Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023 There doesn’t seem to be any good reason for it, because this is a little dead-end street that goes to the ocean. Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 May 2023

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“Be any good.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/be%20any%20good. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.

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