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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as the mere" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to emphasize something as insignificant or trivial, but it lacks context to be effectively used.
Example: "He dismissed the issue as the mere inconvenience it was."
Alternatives: "as the simple" or "as the trivial".
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The main characters' fate isn't merely to die; it's also to live as the mere instruments of others.
The phenomenon is known as the mere reminder effect.
As much as the mere thought disgusts me, I am one of them.
Evaluation effects such as the mere exposure effect, and particularly the "subliminal" mere exposure effect, occur automatically.
With characteristic condescension, they contemptuously dismissed the protests as the mere excrescences of a redneck, retrograde, probably racist rabble.
Yet the manner in which they oppose the government will be as important as the mere fact of their opposition.
Conservatives conceived of this task as the mere supply of the sinews of war on behalf of an absent king.
If he did recognize the toll, he dismissed it as the mere cost of getting everything he ever wanted.
Many are likely to dismiss this pursuit of justice as the mere chasing of the will o' the wisp.
Grayling, however, dismisses all the rest as the mere residue of an outdated worldview or the obfuscation of confused minds.
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One possible explanation is that the questionnaire itself increased breast cancer awareness (a recognised phenomenon known as the 'mere measurement' effect; Godin et al, 2008) in the usual care arms more than the intervention arms.
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