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Example Sentences

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This isn’t merely a slogan; it’s a requirement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Clarence Barron, this magazine’s founder, called investing “the application of money to practical ends,” as opposed to gambling, where “the gains of the successful merely offset the losses of the unsuccessful.”

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

"It's much more than merely delaying or preventing symptoms."

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

It merely looks for linguistic patterns that tend to correlate with AI output.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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