merely
Example Sentences
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These orders are typically couched in procedural language that indicates they are merely temporary measures and don’t resolve core legal questions.
The borrower is merely exercising the option to make contractual mortgage payments until the mortgage matures, an undoubted right.
Global investors are wondering: Is the U.S. still the world’s safest bet—or merely the least unsafe?
From Barron's
The food is described not merely to be eaten, but to be imagined.
From Salon
"The said structure was not connected to any religion, but was merely a decorative piece at a location along the Thailand-Cambodia border," it added.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
