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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mere detail" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to downplay the significance of something, indicating that it is not important in the larger context.
Example: "While the report was thorough, the missing data was just a mere detail that did not affect the overall findings."
Alternatives: "a trivial matter" or "a minor point".
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Mr. Bush's order is not a mere detail.
But this is a mere detail to be brushed aside as neighborhood gentrification proceeds apace.
"Kurosawa was truly inventive," he said, "and, it's a mere detail, but our costume designer, Kazuko Kurosawa, is his daughter".
The fact that Milan's latest fashion week is for menswear is a mere detail for Miuccia Prada.
But if the Task Force's exploratory wells are in the ground, and producing, that becomes a mere detail, rather than a block on more being created.
Mr Le Pen recently reaffirmed a comment, first made back in 1987, that the Nazi gas chambers were a mere "detail" of history.
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As of 2011, Jean-Marie Le Pen's speeches had led to 18 convictions, five for repeating that the Holocaust was a mere "point of detail" of the second world war.
This is no mere detail for a small charity, where margins are always tight and a good relationship with a sympathetic bank is essential.
"This is life; the rest was mere detail," he said with a chuckle.
Take this random passage from a 1985 HP Lovecraft omnibus: "But oddly enough, the worthy gentleman owned himself most impalpably disquieted by a mere minor detail.
Similarly, when he said that the Holocaust was a mere historical "detail," "I know he did not want to hurt anyone".
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