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Recent Examples of merely
March’s stronger-than-expected job gains – the biggest since December 2024 – could merely be just another crest in a roller-coaster-like corkscrew of jobs reports.
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
This is merely the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one.
—Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
The clashing worldviews of secularism and Christianity are not simply competing outlooks — as though one were merely better than the other.
—James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
This list merely skims the surface of the buildings worth seeing in Italy’s national capital.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
This is merely the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one.
—Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2026
The clashing worldviews of secularism and Christianity are not simply competing outlooks — as though one were merely better than the other.
—James O. Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
This list merely skims the surface of the buildings worth seeing in Italy’s national capital.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for merely
Adverb
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The defendant had just delivered a box of Barbies to the family’s Wise County home — Barbies that Athena’s stepmother had ordered as a Christmas gift for the 7-year-old.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Apr. 2026
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The total construction area is just shy of 2,900 square feet — about the size of a standard tennis court.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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With attackers on both shoulders, Dengler could only tap the ball back to Andema in net, forcing Andema to scramble and desperately boot the ball upfield.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Apr. 2026
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But that came only after the visitors scored the first ever goal in the stadium’s history when Guilherme Biro struck the first blow in the game’s sixth minute.—
Andre Fernandez,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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For example, the theme of superposition—put very simply, the idea that characters exist in a number of potential states simultaneously, some of them mutually exclusive, and this ambiguity or multiplicity doesn’t get resolved until some point in the future.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The service is performed by the choir, with the congregation participating simply by listening.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Merely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merely. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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