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Re: "detect if anyone is anyone"

"Oddly enough "anyone" isn't in the OED."

It's in the macOS Dikshunry, which I thought was based on the OED.

Its entry contains this note on usage:

usage: The two-word form any one is not the same as the one-word form anyone and the two forms cannot be used interchangeably. Any one means ‘any single (person or thing)’, as in: not more than twelve new members are admitted in any one year.