merely
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The first starts with terror of the unknown and unseen but culminates in sheer pathos; the latter keeps the reader guessing: Is the creature real or merely the product of a diseased imagination?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In a sermon delivered in Italian on Thursday at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the pope suggested machines lack a soul, saying they merely "compile data" quickly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
El-Sayed is not merely surviving Fox News hits.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
The researchers are using bivalent, or two-headed, molecules to redirect the activity of cancer-driving proteins instead of merely blocking them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
But that made the children cry harder, for to them, being long dead sounded even worse than being merely dead.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing merely
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