simply

Example Sentences

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Prakash says their exhibition is titled "Bombay Framed" rather than "Mumbai Framed" simply because most of the images come from a time when the city was officially known as Bombay.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

One of the most staggering is simply pollution: a jungle riverbank heaped with trashed tires.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Teams simply don’t have time to prepare for everything he’s about to throw at them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

We’ll be interested to see how these investments do, but for our purposes here, it’s simply the scale and speed of the ramp-up that matters.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

He simply used his fingers and untied the knots in the strings.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls