merely
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Understandably, some may feel that Martinez's actions were not particularly violent, but this is merely the red-card category into which all hair pulls are assigned, irrespective of the level of force.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
They merely project modern anxieties onto the canvas of an imagined ancient Rome.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2026
The NBA has worked to counteract the incentives to tank, including by smoothing the odds of that lottery to narrow the odds between the merely bad teams and the abjectly awful ones.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
They sued police departments and district attorneys for merely pursuing and prosecuting criminals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
But if one had seen it on the forest floor, one would have thought it was merely an oddly shaped stump: the cover made of scaly bark, the thick pages bound with twine.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing merely
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