merely
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South Korea is a memory, electronics, automotive and robotics hub, and Nvidia wants it inside the supply chain, not merely buying chips at the end of it.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 1, 2026
All the world is indeed a stage and all its inhabitants merely stock players, as Jaques lays out in “As You Like It.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
Scouts were deployed throughout France, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands - not merely to monitor promising youngsters but to strengthen links with them and their families long before senior international football entered the equation.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026
The radical, dangerous and merely stupid are not only permissible but mandatory.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026
They weren’t merely not sticking with him but fleeing as fast as he would allow them.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing merely
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