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purely and simply

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purely and simply
for only one reason or purpose. They closed the museum purely and simply because it cost too much to run.

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It was purely and simply his removal, in terms clear and precise.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
But if I fall in with, not forty thousand English, as Planchet said, but purely and simply with four hundred, I shall be beaten.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Hence, it resulted when D'Artagnan proceeded to draw his sword in earnest, he found himself purely and simply armed with a stump of a sword about eight or ten inches in length, which the host had carefully placed in the scabbard.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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