merely
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To him, sandpaper is merely used to clean up his surfboard.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
These were all the things I had been trying to understand as merely symbolic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Possibly, but this overlooks that the Chinese aren’t using AI merely for commercial purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
It previously insisted that its CEO’s interactions with Alice Huang were aboveboard, describing her merely as an executive at a company to which Nvidia sold chips.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026
“Ten . . . twenty . . . thirty . . .” The children were excellent counters, which merely underscored how very many pieces of correspondence were already on hand.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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