not merely
idiom
—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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There was not merely the overwhelming victory of the tough-on-crime Proposition 36, but also the defeat of Prop. 33, the third attempt at expanding rent control in the last six years, all backed by Democratic politicians.
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Once an affront to the art system, this commercial crossover is now embedded in the system’s very fabric, a strategy not merely for superstar artists, but for artists of all stripes: emerging and established, low-profile and publicity-hungry alike.
—Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Switching the siren off Thankfully, the business world has woken up to the idea that mental health is not merely a personal issue.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Johnson and others believed that dictionaries could record, and not merely dictate, the expressions of a people, in a version of what Savigny, the Grimms’ old professor at Marburg, had preached about the law.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
Once an affront to the art system, this commercial crossover is now embedded in the system’s very fabric, a strategy not merely for superstar artists, but for artists of all stripes: emerging and established, low-profile and publicity-hungry alike.
—Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
Switching the siren off Thankfully, the business world has woken up to the idea that mental health is not merely a personal issue.
—Allbusiness, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Johnson and others believed that dictionaries could record, and not merely dictate, the expressions of a people, in a version of what Savigny, the Grimms’ old professor at Marburg, had preached about the law.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Not merely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20merely. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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