"merely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These short narratives sometimes offer half-hearted morals but for the most part they're merely diverting.
- Of course, it would hardly matter who bought tickets if the lottery merely diverted revenues and profits from illegal gambling to worthy government activities.
- She wanted to ask, but she knew that she was merely diverting him, that some part of her didn't want to hear what he had to say.
- It's been said many times before: what was once disturbing is now merely diverting.
- Whether Pitx1 merely diverts a prospective forelimb from that path to become a hindlimb, or if Tbx5 is activated by another Pitx1-like messenger, is unknown.
- A debate has developed over whether a team generates new spending or merely diverts money that would be spent on other leisure pursuits.
- He acknowledges that merely diverting existing taxes into private accounts does not raise national savings.
- It is not an issue that we should link with other matters because that merely diverts attention away from where the real work can be done.
- That should help TESSAs to increase, rather than merely divert, saving.
- Some may find them [songs] merely diverting melodies.
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