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Example sentences for: merely

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In Paris Le Monde 's editorial Friday was devoted to the financial crisis in Brazil, which it said had not merely brought a premature end to "europhoria" about the new single European currency but had "destabilized an international financial system which was just beginning to recover from the Asian and Russian crises."
They usually serve to merely entrench a tyrant.
No economist with ambitions for tenure would dream of dismissing a business as a "shell game" merely because its revenue diverts revenue from other businesses.
Rauschenberg is an amazingly prolific and formally venturesome artist who, over the past 50 years, has nearly always risked aesthetic trespass, producing work deliberately just one degree or two from being merely ugly, banal, kitschy, gimmicky, showy, facile or, of course, excessive.
He merely uses an inefficient subsidy for something that is increasingly cheap and easy to do at home--and which could soon be subsidized directly at far lower expense.