Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You use ~ to refer to all the objects, actions, activities, or facts in a particular situation.
He’d gone to Seattle long after ~ else in his life had changed...
Early in the morning, hikers pack ~ that they will need for the day’s hike...
? nothing
PRON: oft PRON else
2.
You use ~ to refer to all possible or likely actions, activities, or situations.
‘This should have been decided long before now.’—‘We can’t think of ~.’...
Noel and I do ~ together...
Are you doing ~ possible to reduce your budget?
PRON
3.
You use ~ to refer to a whole situation or to life in general.
She says ~ is going smoothly...
Is ~ all right?...
Everything’s going to be just fine.
PRON
4.
If you say that someone or something is ~, you mean you consider them to be the most important thing in your life, or the most important thing that there is.
I love him. He is ~ to me...
Money isn’t ~.
? nothing
PRON: oft PRON to n
5.
If you say that someone or something has ~, you mean they have all the things or qualities that most people consider to be desirable.
She has ~: beauty, talent, children...
PRON