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Example Sentences
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“Life at the Bottom” will be republished next month in a 25th-anniversary edition, and he sums up its message: “It is dehumanizing to think of social problems, or social pathology, as if human beings were mere inanimate objects, reacting like billiard balls to other billiard balls, without ideas or agency of their own.”
"It is interesting that the mere migration of immune cells into the joint is not sufficient to trigger inflammation there."
From Science Daily
This quilt chart teaches more than mere words ever could.
From MarketWatch
The quality that differentiates him from most mere mortals is his near lack of ego and the confidence that if people were curious enough to come to know who he is and what he stands for, they’d like him and maybe even find a way to see the best in themselves.
From Salon
The commission’s definition of “decisions” turns out to include mere thoughts: whether users believe an account is authentic on a platform “advertising itself as a source for information and news.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
