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Example Sentences
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The season just seems to get longer every year, creeping into the spring and summer months, with awards heavyweights like “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” dropping mere months after the last Oscar ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times
But he has topped up the reserve by a mere 1 million barrels since beginning his second term.
If the jury sides with Kaley, it would upset decades of legal and cultural precedent that have treated platforms as mere repositories of human nature.
From BBC
So the emphasis on unity, patriotism and the need to fight corruption for a "national rejuvenation" is not mere rhetoric.
From BBC
In Verdi’s hands the waltz is no mere set piece articulating place and time, but a throughline central to the realism at the heart of the work.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
