1
as in only
for nothing other than
I fight solely for my country, not for money!
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2
as in independently
without aid or support
you undertook that project solely on your own, and you will finish it likewise
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Recent Examples of solely
Lois, meanwhile, is too busy to focus solely on Malcolm’s massive secrets.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
Silicon Valley’s dominance has never depended solely on technology.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
Money Research Collective’s editorial team solely created this content.
—Kat Tretina, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
That minimized the side-by-side opportunities with Herro, including again solely and either/or approach in the first half.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
Silicon Valley’s dominance has never depended solely on technology.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
Money Research Collective’s editorial team solely created this content.
—Kat Tretina, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
That minimized the side-by-side opportunities with Herro, including again solely and either/or approach in the first half.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for solely
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
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All products and listings featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Apr. 2026
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Practice adoption for soil health is independently verified using remote sensing data.—
SJ Studio,
Footwear News,
6 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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More recently, heavy rain alone has begun to produce the same effect.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Only 30 people were allowed at the funeral, and the queen sat alone at the church, wearing a mask.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
5 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Yes, a kid, barely nineteen years old, squarely a member of the next generation who had come of age in the midst of the pandemic, during which chess was almost exclusively a game of pixels on a screen.—
Ben Mezrich,
Vanity Fair,
6 Apr. 2026
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One of them was Fran, who works in the fragrance industry and has exclusively worn Oud Satin Mood by Maison Francis Kurkdjian since 2023.—
Elizabeth Gulino,
Allure,
6 Apr. 2026
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Stearman reminded lawmakers that Kentucky was one of the few states that allowed the service to be billed separately.—
Alex Acquisto,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Compared with services purchased separately.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
9 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
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In Oregon, Read said, the state has people prove their citizenship before sending them a ballot that is individually tracked with a barcode.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2026
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Each of the participating candidates was interviewed individually using the same format.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Solely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solely. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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