merely
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And the first 199 laps, it turned out on Sunday, were merely prologue.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
The point is richness and structure — enough dairy and egg to transform bread into something soft and custardy rather than merely wet.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
One can forget that Cage, who finds a middle way between doing a bit and playing a person, is a good comic actor, and not merely a weirdo.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
Alas, they’re not thinking in the continuous sense you and I experience; they are merely providing themselves with a discrete sequence of internal prompts.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
She had come to think it was out of friendship, for he had been distinctly helpful to them on several occasions—but had he merely been spying on them all along?
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing merely
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