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as in only
for nothing other than
the scholarships are awarded simply on the basis of merit uninterested in food, she eats simply to keep alive
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Recent Examples of simply
Natural Aging The good news is that sometimes, a few dropped leaves in springtime is simply natural aging and nothing to be alarmed about.
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Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
The stadium staff at every level are simply wonderful and always so welcoming.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
Put simply, prices must fall still further in these metros for shoppers to cover the monthly nut.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
Mythos is not simply good at finding vulnerabilities, Graham said, but also at chaining them together into complicated exploits that can be devastating hacking tools.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
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Alexandra Jones, The Spruce, 11 Apr. 2026
The stadium staff at every level are simply wonderful and always so welcoming.
—Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2026
Put simply, prices must fall still further in these metros for shoppers to cover the monthly nut.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
Mythos is not simply good at finding vulnerabilities, Graham said, but also at chaining them together into complicated exploits that can be devastating hacking tools.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for simply
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simply
Adverb
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On the surface, things seem more fluid in America, but that is only the surface.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Alabama offers only the auto loan deduction.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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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To address the challenge, the team designed a swap gate based purely on geometric phases, that exchanges the quantum state of two qubits.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026
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If the question was purely about having money to spend, traditional luxury would be booming as well.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
9 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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But a metals price rise in international trade won’t cause double-digit rises in household costs of Bush beans or Budweiser beer in merely a few weeks.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
12 Apr. 2026
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Their second baseman the last two days, however, is merely a function of rotating off-days for veterans.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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One, Emergency in favor of twice, existed solely as an unfathomable phrase mentioned in a letter from Duchamp to his sister.—
Howard Halle,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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Women’s health is often thought of as consisting solely of reproductive health issues.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Munn, 45, spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about what her day-to-day is like with her husband John Mulaney and their two kids at the Your Friends & Neighbors press junket on Tuesday, March 24.—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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The play strips away some of the cinematic trappings of the movie and focuses exclusively on the lives of the female characters.—
Libby Smith,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Simply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simply. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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