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purely

adverb as in simply, absolutely

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“It then became two, and three," he says, "then after package four it was purely about the money.”

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Crucially, he argued that this decision was a purely “political question” for states, Congress, and the president to decide—meaning that courts cannot overrule their determination that an invasion exists.

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Kwan, a wealthy doctor who lived in a large detached home in Ingleby Barwick with his wife and young son, was motivated purely by greed, Mr Makepeace said.

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"He was selling to children, targeting youngsters at a nightclub where no alcohol was available, it was purely for children and was a dry evening."

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Responding to the chancellor's Budget speech, Rishi Sunak said Labour's claims about the state of the economy they inherited were "purely ludicrous".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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