merely
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Crystal Palace captain and England defender Guehi was a top target, not merely as partner to Virgil van Dijk but as cover to Ibrahima Konate, whose contract is coming to an end.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
“He was not the leader in the hunger and the labor strike. He was merely a participant in it in support of what was going on. They lied,” she said.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
You’re not out to fleece anyone with egregiously high commissions or merely befriend another member because you want to flog the latest financial product.
From MarketWatch • May 29, 2026
If we are merely biological machines—producers, consumers or data points—then superior computational systems threaten to eclipse humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
They merely needed to stop rising at the unprecedented rates they had the previous few years for vast numbers of Americans to default on their home loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing merely
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