Words similar to merely

Example sentences for: merely

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The NYT ably explains what's at issue in the new Supreme Court Miranda case: whether with the original ruling, the Warren Court was establishing a rule of constitutional law or merely expressing its own preference for a method of enforcing the constitutional right against compelled self-incrimination.
The point, after all, is to be outré . Killers are outré . Wrongly accused prison inmates are merely tragic.
An opinion piece Monday in the Irish Times said, "Internment will not merely put the Nazi wing [of the IRA] behind bars; it will also serve to strengthen the conciliatory Adams/McGuinness wing in their arguments with dissidents inside the larger Sinn Féin/IRA family."
(The Post story implies that this sequence of events is certain rather than merely apparent.)
One agency intended to implement an employee travel claim procedure allowing travelers, with certain exceptions, to merely list an aggregate amount of all expenses that individually cost $75 or less.