The phrase "merely exposed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something is just revealed or made public but has not been explored or elaborated on. For example: "The evidence was merely exposed, leaving many questions unanswered."
The rest of us are merely exposed by it".
Everything else merely exposed wrongdoing – the whole point of the case.
To others the reaction merely exposed the conservatism of the well-heeled audience.
Rather than ending the problem of illicit funding, the Chirac convictions merely exposed how institutionalised it was.
The online world has merely exposed the feebleness of human attention, which is so weak that even the most minor temptations are all but impossible to resist.
Some lawyers argued that while the adoption of such testing policies could prove a boon for some inmates, the policy merely exposed persistent flaws in the prosecutorial system, and that those broader issues should also be addressed.
American protection is worthless and unwanted: It merely exposes the Arabs to Israeli aggression.
Four women take turns shaking their skirts — village women are like this, you see — but this merely exposes their tactlessness.
Yet such fidelity merely exposes the monotonous nature of the story, whose plodding one-thing-after-another movement is not as ennobling as the film-makers seem to believe.
In reality, those who make such charges merely expose their determination to keep their own people in the dark about the reality affecting their own lives, unable to correct or adjust – or even accept their fate on the basis of collective will, rather than the decisions of the few.
Was Wagner's music despicably perverted by the Nazis, or did their adulation merely expose its inherent perversions?
