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Example Sentences

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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

She lost her case at the appeals court, which held that Colorado’s law merely regulates conduct by medical professionals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Her hand-stitched Hawoo had not been intended as a howl at all but was merely her own way of writing “hello” so that the word would sound the way she liked to say it.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood