Sentence examples similar to it merely persists from inspiring English sources

This does not suit Murray, so it makes me wonder if he has merely "persisted".

Mulhall, who tends to pursue this way of characterizing Dasein, develops the idea by explaining that while inanimate objects merely persist through time and while plants and non-human animals have their lives determined entirely by the demands of survival and reproduction, human beings lead their lives (Mulhall 2005, 15).

Is it a formal correction that will persist, or is it merely a drop brought on by global conditions that are hampering American markets?

It merely postpones it.

It merely exists, again.

It merely astonishes me.

Was it merely boredom?

Or is it merely naïve?

It merely looks the way it does.

It merely says: this is it.

It merely said it was needed.