adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
purely and simply
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I do it purely and simply for the money.
simply because
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Many exam candidates lose marks simply because they do not read the questions properly.
simply disappear (= used to emphasize that it is very strange )
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After two weeks it seemed that the boys had simply disappeared.
simply refuse (= used for emphasis )
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Some children simply refuse to do what they’re told.
simply
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Put simply, our aim is to create art.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
mean
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This means simply that the customers have the claim on these deposits and thus the institutions are liable to meet the claims.
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To Freed, it purely and simply meant money.
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It means simply freedom from coercion by others and it is achieved when a sphere of private autonomy is created.
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Since we only have one planet to go on, this simply means that the process has happened once.
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But uneven development does not simply mean that types and quantities of physical and social phenomena vary from place to place.
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The banking industry is aggressively paring its ranks, and the current wave of megamergers simply means more layoffs.
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A mistake with the treatment will simply mean a double threat to the life of the patient.
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Many economists argue raising the minimum wage simply means higher unemployment among the very people such a measure is trying to help.
put
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The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them.
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They simply put it out and let the music speak for itself.
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He simply put the letters on Arty's locker and turned away.
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Their task, simply put , was to lay the scientific groundwork for the manned landing missions that were then being planned.
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Put simply , the necessary finance can be made available to you in return for Barclays taking a minority shareholding in your business.
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Put simply , intellectual property is not an obstacle to access.
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The questions were simply putting the officers' belief in his guilt to W, and he was making no reply.
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Put simply , they believe aid fails due to the dichotomy between theory at a distance and practical reality at the local level.
want
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She simply wanted to meet me.
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They simply wanted more of my time.
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He subsequently endeavoured to explain that he simply wanted to question the cost-effectiveness of the programme in terms of lives saved.
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They simply wanted to jab Clinton.
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Some older people want classes specially for their own age group; others want simply to participate in adult education generally.
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Was that it, or did he simply want to de-emphasize the black heritage?
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As far as they are concerned, of course, they are simply wanting another ice-cream, or another go on the swing.
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You simply want something so much that you knock yourself out to get it.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it's just/only/simply a question of doing sth
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Sometimes, it's simply a question of somewhere safe to go after school while parents are working.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's not simply a matter of hiring more people - they also need to be trained.
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She writes very simply and clearly.
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The strain on the rope was simply too much, and it broke in two.
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They live very simply in the country.
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We simply don't have the resources to compete with large corporations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already, many programs are simply unavailable in the older, 16-bit versions.
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But the rotational periods are correspondingly long and for all states are quite simply related to the rotational constants of the molecules.
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Mexicali Mayor Victor Hermosillo staunchly defended his police officers, saying they simply were maintaining public order.
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Most of them simply release their eggs and sperm and rely on the surrounding water to bring them together.
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Rome, in short, lived on its past simply by being a capital city.
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Suppose that we are simply given an algorithm which generates the digits of the real and imaginary part of some complex number.