merely

Example Sentences

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These images did not merely document India's diversity; they actively shaped it, translating fluid, lived realities into apparently stable and knowable "types".

From BBC

The decision also doesn’t encompass all of the administration’s tariffs and trade deals, merely the 25% levies against Canada and Mexico, as well as a 20% tariff against China, and a 10% global levy.

From Barron's

By handing Banks a length of rope instead, and standing by as she prettily ties it into a noose, they invite the audience to conclude that the many sins of “Top Model” weren’t merely systemic.

From Salon

Ancient, patriarchal and oracular, Tennyson was not merely the poet laureate of England; he was, like his queen, a symbol of the British Empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

The soldiers' lawyers argued that their clients were merely doing their job.

From BBC