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Any body

/əˈniː bɒdi/

Any person; used when referring to an unspecified person in a general sense

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Does anybody here know the answer to the question?If anybody needs help, I'm available until 5 PM.Can anybody suggest a good movie to watch tonight?

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Anybody

/ˈeniˌbɒdi/

A term used to refer to any person or individual without specification

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"It is anybodys fight," Martin heard some one saying.Certainly there isn't anybody that I would have trusted as much.I should hope that I never screw confidences out of anybody.

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Any body refers to any physical body or corpse and is used in more literal, specific contexts.
Anybody is a pronoun that means any person at all and is more abstract and general in use.
To remember the difference, note that any body deals with physical existence whereas anybody is about people in general terms.

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