merely
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The formal Declaration merely ratified that decision with an eye to winning essential foreign support.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Like Eagle Rockers, San Franciscans were done merely lamenting the community’s loss.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
“The diversification of global rare-earth supply chains is an imperative, not merely an opportunity,” said Chief Executive Darryl Cuzzubbo.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
If the Constitution treats all of that information as voluntarily exposed merely because third parties mediate it technologically, then the Fourth Amendment contracts dramatically without anyone ever formally rewriting it.
From Slate • May 20, 2026
No wonder that Angeliki Simosi, the director of the Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, exclaimed, “The ship that sank at Antikythera was not merely a cargo ship. It was essentially a floating museum.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing merely
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