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The problem is that nets also ensnare fish that aren’t being targeted: compounds that are closely related to illicit substances or merely look similar.
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Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
Would penalties kick in automatically, or would the plan merely empower the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible cases?
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
The union’s workers have been working on the same contract for more than a decade, which has been merely extended in the interim.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2024
The Soviets seized on these divisions, establishing a Norwegian-Soviet Friendship Society and pushing the message that Oslo didn’t care about the north—that the government was merely a tool of officials in Brussels and Washington, D.C.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
Would penalties kick in automatically, or would the plan merely empower the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible cases?
—Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
The union’s workers have been working on the same contract for more than a decade, which has been merely extended in the interim.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2024
The Soviets seized on these divisions, establishing a Norwegian-Soviet Friendship Society and pushing the message that Oslo didn’t care about the north—that the government was merely a tool of officials in Brussels and Washington, D.C.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Merely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merely. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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