purely
Example Sentences
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His comrades have been slowly picked off, and without human connections he has further transformed into a hunted animal, driven to elude his pursuers purely by “anger and desperation.”
"I don't agree with it because it is purely accidental. I understand the yellow card, but not the red," he said.
From BBC
Arizona's Pima County Sheriff's Department said in a statement on X: "There is no date or timestamp associated with these images. Therefore any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative."
From BBC
“There is no date or time stamp associated with these images. Therefore, any suggestion that the photographs were taken on different days is purely speculative.”
From Los Angeles Times
The initiative is intended, organizers say, to broaden the fair’s reach beyond its art world audience — positioning Frieze as a civic platform rather than a purely commercial event.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
