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'can merely' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone has very limited ability to accomplish something. For example, "I can merely offer my sincerest apologies for the misunderstanding."
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Instead, it can merely lobby other relevant ministries or agencies to take action.
On this occasion the Frenchman can merely stand and watch it fly past his ears.
But "acceptance" is not something we can merely choose, like a bento box at the neighborhood sushi joint.
Instead I can merely assure you that it contains some potent facts and some very nice turtles.
That is because, unlike an engineer, evolution cannot go back to the drawing board, it can merely play with what already exists.
As Silver's book The Signal and the Noise puts it, we can merely "strive to be less subjective, less irrational, and less wrong".
You must never aspire to "finish" a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
So can merely talking, hands-free or no, especially if the unicycling clown is a cement truck or a bend in the road.
If it has the shape and some of the properties, we can merely metaphorically imagine it as a member of the class.
Blago typifies our popular culture more than our politics, namely the growing spotlight on those who can merely be provocative, rather than smart and right.
That leaves the movement, and the haunting music by Ms. Pite's longtime collaborator, Owen Belton, to convey the inchoate feelings and emotions that the exposition can merely suggest.
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