merely
Example Sentences
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What was most surprising was that the treatment didn’t merely prevent the disease in mice that hadn’t yet developed, it but also reversed the damage among those that did.
From MarketWatch
This has raised uncertainty over whether the higher tariffs will merely offset capex, he adds.
Net of those costs, a short seller would have merely broken even between 2010 and mid-2025—an alpha of zero.
From Barron's
The World Bank estimates that over half a billion Indians, or nearly 40% of the country's population, now live in urban areas - a staggering rise from 1960 when merely 70 million Indians lived in cities.
From BBC
The law cites a definition of fraud that includes merely giving a “false impression” of union matters.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
