The phrase "attributed merely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is assigned or credited in a way that is considered minimal or superficial.
Example: "The success of the project cannot be attributed merely to luck; it required hard work and dedication."
Alternatives: "attributed only" or "credited simply".
But the Texas governor's unexpected prowess cannot be attributed merely to the staggering ineptitude of Mr. Gore's candidacy.
The Labour surge cannot be attributed merely to vengeful students bitter about Clegg's broken promise on tuition fees.
For the researchers, the persistence of the staff was a plus: it meant that the children's gains could not be attributed merely to their parents' initiative.
Based on these arguments, the substantially increased learning gains that result from adding instructor explanation after peer discussion are highly unlikely to be attributed merely to the increased time on task.
Such an increase cannot be attributed merely to decreased automaticity when reading English words because speed of processing letter strings will affect both real words and non-words equally.
We included fillers of strong and weak causes to ensure that any priming effects of enabling causes could not be attributed merely to the presence of any causal conditional.
Is this the poem of a "literal man," or is that attribute merely assigned to the speaker by a companion about whose mind the speaker possesses only inept, overliteral hypotheses?
Otherwise, these additional attributes merely add noise (i.e. irreproducible associations) to the dataset that must be accommodated by a larger set of training data.
So accordingly, this suggests that any difference in the metabolic status of FG as compared to F is not merely attributed to the intervention of gentamicin therapy but it can be attributed to the higher amount of fructose that was ingested by FG group.
Out of three portraits which have always been considered Bronzinos, two are now merely attributed to him.
At first Mr. Haneke attributed that practice merely to "habit or laziness," saying "it isn't meaningful in the least".
