"by any stretch" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of \"by any stretch of the imagination\".",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marcia Clark, Guilt By Association",
          "text": "With its barred windows and fading paper signs announcing the various forms of its artery cloggers du jour, it couldn't by any stretch be called inviting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Alan J. Dignam, Andrew Hicks, Hicks & Goo's Cases and Materials on Company Law, page 464",
          "text": "I can see nothing in that case which supports the proposition that a right conferred on an individual by the articles of a company to remain as president until removed in general meeting, and which is unrelated to any shareholding, can, by any stretch, be described as a class right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Emivita -, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil",
          "text": "I wasn't genetically tied to her by any stretch which gave me some comfort.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Frank Griffin, Touched by Fire, page 75",
          "text": "But Louie Ray's mama was a gem, and while the Kirklands weren't rich by any stretch, they were a little better off than us.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "In any conceivable way."
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          "conceivable",
          "conceivable"
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  "word": "by any stretch"
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  "etymology_text": "Clipping of \"by any stretch of the imagination\".",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marcia Clark, Guilt By Association",
          "text": "With its barred windows and fading paper signs announcing the various forms of its artery cloggers du jour, it couldn't by any stretch be called inviting.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Alan J. Dignam, Andrew Hicks, Hicks & Goo's Cases and Materials on Company Law, page 464",
          "text": "I can see nothing in that case which supports the proposition that a right conferred on an individual by the articles of a company to remain as president until removed in general meeting, and which is unrelated to any shareholding, can, by any stretch, be described as a class right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Emivita -, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil",
          "text": "I wasn't genetically tied to her by any stretch which gave me some comfort.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Frank Griffin, Touched by Fire, page 75",
          "text": "But Louie Ray's mama was a gem, and while the Kirklands weren't rich by any stretch, they were a little better off than us.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In any conceivable way."
      ],
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          "conceivable",
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          "way",
          "way"
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  ],
  "word": "by any stretch"
}