mere
C1Frequent NGSL-3UK /mɪə(r)/US /mɪr/
Meaning
adjective
used when you want to emphasize how small, unimportant, etc. somebody/something is
“It took her a mere 20 minutes to win.”
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“So I think it fair to say that, by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.”
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So I think it fair to say that, by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.
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