not merely
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—used to say that one thing is true and that another thing is also true
He was not merely a great baseball player, he was also a great person.
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Eyes on everyone This is not merely a question of data privacy.
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Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
Instead, while City have not merely dipped but fallen off a cliff, Arsenal are set to finish a distant second to a team in Liverpool who have signed just one player all season — Federico Chiesa, who has barely played.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
In this document, Francis showed that the heart in the biblical and Christian tradition is not merely the place of feeling and emotion, but the truest and deepest center of us, beyond roles and projections.
—Austen Ivereigh, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Totalitarianism and socialism are simply morally wrong, not merely only non-efficacious, ineffective, uneconomical.
—Walter E Block, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
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Nicole M. Bennett, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
Instead, while City have not merely dipped but fallen off a cliff, Arsenal are set to finish a distant second to a team in Liverpool who have signed just one player all season — Federico Chiesa, who has barely played.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
In this document, Francis showed that the heart in the biblical and Christian tradition is not merely the place of feeling and emotion, but the truest and deepest center of us, beyond roles and projections.
—Austen Ivereigh, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Totalitarianism and socialism are simply morally wrong, not merely only non-efficacious, ineffective, uneconomical.
—Walter E Block, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Not merely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20merely. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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