Words similar to merely

Example sentences for: merely

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The only obstacle: To be on a stamp you must actually be dead; to be on PBS you need merely seem dead.
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.
It is not really a dictionary, of course, because it lacks definitions; it is merely a word list.
Like the finger-wagging scene in One Person , this ad reminds viewers not of what Clinton did to Jones or Starr but of what he did to us . It doesn't say his lies were criminal; it merely says they were wrong.
Temporal language often depicts the passage of time not merely as fast, relentless, and irrevocable but also, more and more, as conceptually slippery.