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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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 Angham emphasizes that her role as a producer is not merely to finance projects but to guide emerging talent on the right path. —

Omar Baqbouq, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024 This statement was not merely an appeal to Western, Islamophobic anxieties but an invocation of core Zionist ideology. —

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