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View definitions for merely

merely

adverb as in slightly

Weak match

adverb as in a little

Strong match

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Investors betting on Public, then, would be placing a wager on not merely future user growth, but the startup’s ability to monetize effectively in the future.

Someone asks again and again and again over several years and it’s neither cute nor flattering, and it goes beyond being merely unwelcome.

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She merely notes how surprising it is that people like you accept the premise that your good fortune is a rebuke to her reverses.

Big data was the jam a while back, but it turned out to be merely one piece in the broader data puzzle.

The NBA has academies all over the world, but it is not just merely to develop young players.

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Marrying yourself merely underscores selfishness and self-interest, rather than enabling you to live singly in the best way.

Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest.

“It was not merely the work in which he had constantly grown happier that he saw taken from him,” Howells notes.

I testified merely eight feet from this monster at a preliminary hearing.

As Rathod noted, SIX is not supposed to be merely the opposite of ALEC.

Janet's silence impressed Hilda: it was not merely strange--it was formidable: it affected the whole day.

We see the whole land, even if but at a distance, instead of being limited merely to the spot where our foot treads.

Haggard merely played for the excitement, and Spunyarn because it was a lesser bore to play than to look on.

The America that they annexed to Europe was merely a new domain added to a world already old.

But they soon fell out, for Murat had the audacity to try and make these patriots fight instead of merely seeking plunder.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to merely, such as: hardly, only, purely, simply, solely, and wholly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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