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• n  a small pond of standing water
• s  being nothing more than specified
  a mere child
• s  apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  shocked by the mere idea

• The jury found Speck guilty after a mere 49 minutes of deliberation and he was sentenced to the electric chair.
• On March 11, 2002, when they turned it on, the engineers did something no mere mortal had ever done before: they created the Earth.
• Three days later, Aquinothe woman derided by Marcos as "a mere housewife"was President.

• bare
• simple

News & Articles

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• Poll: Which team do you think will win Game 7?
  The San Antonio Spurs were mere seconds away from capturing the franchise’s fifth NBA title on Tuesday night. But thanks to a furious Heat rally, which featured a lively (and headbandless) LeBron James and was highlighted by Ray Allen’s game-tying 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds remaining in regulation, the Spurs face the tall task of trying to become the first road team to win an NBA Finals Game 7 ...
  June 19, 2013 - Houston Chronicle
• Manu Ginobili and the Spurs ‘Devastated’ After Game 6
  The San Antonio Spurs were mere seconds away from claiming a fifth NBA championship last night. They somehow let it slip away, and now they must pick themselves up and try to win Game 7 in Miami.
  June 19, 2013 - Slam
• This Strange, Beautiful, Indescribable New Media Technology Just Won The World's Top Ad Award
  To call the Barbarian Group's "Cinder" project a mere "coding platform," — which, technically, it is — is a huge injustice. It's more like a massive multi-media animation dashboard for gigantic outdoor spectacles. But it also works in one-off apps on iPads. (See video below.)
  June 19, 2013 - Business Insider

Quotes

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• John Paul Stevens in Examiner.com
  Although the court's decision in this case might be seen as a mere adjunct to Heller,Justice Stevens wrote, "the consequences could prove far more destructive - quite literally - to our nation's communities and to our constitutional...
• Pope Benedict XVI in Los Angeles Times
  Democrats haven't scheduled so much as a committee hearing for Donald Berwick but the mere possibility of allowing the American people the opportunity to hear what he intends to do with their health care is evidently reason enough for this... Mitch McConnell http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEZA1ca3PJ7nNpSJFQIuI8CQ4eMWw Atlanta Journal Constitution http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/obama-bypasses-senate-for-565533.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGjbX_x1V6ZbNQvQAqXJaZ03HYJ0A Jul 7, 2010 62865 83858 mere Fidelity to your Christian roots, fidelity to the church's mission in the Holy Land, demands of each of you a particular kind of courage: the courage of conviction, born of personal faith, not mere social convention or family tradition,"...