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simply in English:

1. Simple Simple


That's simple.
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
As shown above, it is possible to obtain ample profit and customers with truly simple know-how that anyone can do!
This drama is missing something. All it is is a simple cautionary tale with no real depth.
The people of old were simple through honesty; the people of today are clever through artificiality.
What do you mean? Dima asked, but burped, for if he remained silent, this sentence would be too simple.
It is even becoming accepted even in exam-English that that called "simple future tense" does not exist.
Leading a fulfilling life really comes down to a simple question: When you turn off the lights at night and your head is on the pillow, what do you hear? Your soul singing or Satan laughing?
There was a very simple reason for this: their planet was cooling down internally and would become uninhabitable within 500 years.
Why do people add simple and common sentences such as "hello", "how are you", etc.?
We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum: "Out of many, one."
Women are directly adapted to act as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, for the simple reason that they themselves are childish, foolish, and short-sighted.
Everyone who uses Esperanto or works for it, is an Esperantist, and every Esperantist has the complete right, in Esperanto, to see only the language as a simple, cold tool for international comprehension.

2. mere mere


Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.
A mere repetition of other people's research cannot be called true scientific research.
mere coincidence
There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, — namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
According to the "ahl al-haqq" the universe consists of only one substance, and all what we name generations and corruptions, death and life, is a mere combination or dissolution of modes.
Is it mere coincidence that "banality", when anagrammed, reads "Ban Italy"?
Mum, a mere woman surrounded by men, works in a construction company as a site foreman.
Robinson considers nature a mere object of scientific study to exploit for his own uses and pleasure.
Mere decay produces richer life.
The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity.
Condillac, with sensationalism, revolutionised the concept of mind, making language and gesture prior to ideas, shattering Locke's conception of language as a mere passive medium.
a mere child; the merest suggestion of criticism; it was sold for a mere £45
"We did a slow circuit of the castle, watching Thomas roll down the steep parts of the hill, feeding the ducks that by this stage in the season were so well stuffed they could barely be bothered to come over for mere bread. "
questions that cannot be answered by mere mortals
However, in any historical process, such details are mere trivialities.

English word "simply"(mere) occurs in sets:

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3. in a straightforward manner in a straightforward manner



English word "simply"(in a straightforward manner) occurs in sets:

Most common adverbs

4. just just


He just left.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
Rather than putting off this meeting, why don't we just call it off?
A really perceptive person can figure out a whole situation with just a few clues. That's the kind of person I want you to become.
Being a good conversationalist does not just mean being a good speaker of English.
The question is whether Tom was planning to meet Mary or just met her by chance.
He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.
Just when I was getting the hang of things, I was in a traffic accident and had to stay two months in the hospital.
Tom would often make mistakes purposely just so the teacher would notice him.
Considering all I've eaten all day is just one slice of bread, I'm not really all that hungry.
I don't need to sound like a native speaker, I just want to be able to speak fluently.
I have a hard time seeing the logic of this latest decision of his. He just isn't as sharp as he used to be.
He puts on a show of being impartial and unbiased, but I think he's just a guy with no opinion of his own.
I've been thinking about marriage a lot, and I think we should just do it.
If you raise an eyebrow, it can mean "I want to have sex with you", but also "I find that what you just said is completely idiotic."

5. plainly


They were plainly dressed.
The incentive to sell more is great - and it plainly works.
So that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
She plainly interpreted Picasso's paintings to me.
And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.
I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Stop beating around the bush and tell me plainly what you want from me.

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