pure and simple
Example Sentences
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“These prediction markets you are breathlessly defending are gambling—pure and simple.”
This "constitutes, pure and simple, a form of cheating", the football governing body said at the time.
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In December 1886, Samuel Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, organizing only skilled workers and focusing on “pure and simple” unionism that rejected state intervention.
"The complaints went to head office to be dealt with. However, no one sees this as a head office problem; it's a Kent problem. Pure and simple."
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This, the body said, "constitutes, pure and simple, a form of cheating".
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