Merely in example sentence

Being merely civil means not pulling our punches, but at the same time, it means maybe not landing all those punches all at once, because the point of mere civility is to allow us to disagree, to disagree fundamentally, but to do so without denying or destroying the possibility of a common life tomorrow with the people that we think are standing in our way today.

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"He merely makes you think that he does."

This caste system was so arcane that it was actually against the law for a black person and a white person to merely play checkers together in Birmingham.

Merely by making the single decision to leave, her parents assured that their daughter would get access to books.

I merely, most respectfully, return Him the ticket."

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