purely

Example Sentences

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"While puberty offers a clear start, the end of adolescence is much harder to pin down scientifically. Based purely on neural architecture, we found that adolescent-like changes in brain structure end around the early thirties."

From Science Daily

It meant the NHS "will be able to approve medicines that deliver significant health improvements but might have previously  been declined  purely on cost-effectiveness grounds."

From Barron's

However Fars said that Talara's seizure was not taken as a measure against any other nation, but was a purely local matter.

From Barron's

"I don't think purely using military power is going to work here, you need to complement that with other measures."

From BBC

"We simply don't know the effects in people using these drugs purely for cosmetic purposes," says Simon Cork, senior lecturer in physiology at Anglia Ruskin University in the UK.

From BBC