mere

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But the director, who wrote his adaptation in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo, also isn’t content with mere novelistic faithfulness to an author whose traces of colonial allegory in “The Stranger” have often been found problematic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

Today its ability to threaten the U.S. and its allies has been reduced to a mere fraction of that, and it will be years and years before it can reconstitute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Conversely, critics have been the ones quick to deem the film mere sensationalism, seemingly clinging to preconceived notions about how certain themes should be talked about within the medium.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

Defining the line between productive uses of capital and mere speculation is a never-ending battle.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

That was when it first occurred to me that the only map of Ghana I had ever known—depicting the lake—was mere decades old.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo