mere act

collocation in English

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mere
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mɪər/us
/mɪr/
used to emphasize that something is not large ...
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act
noun
uk
/ækt/us
/ækt/
something that ...
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(Definition ofmereandactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmere act

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Traditional celebrations honor individual heroism, not themereactof survival in a modern war.
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The totality of live performance became themereactof pushing 'play' on a machine, yet still resulting in an enveloping rapture of sound.
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This was not amereactof quixotism or chivalry; it is a plain constitutional truth.
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He said that it was "amereactof instinctive criminal damage".
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I think that themereactof this separation and of this taking up of opposite stations is pregnant with danger.
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It is an exceedingly serious and heavy penalty for what might be amereactof indiscretion.
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I feel that to lengthen this period from six to eight weeks is amereactof justice.
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I find it difficult, in any precision of phrase, to envisage amereactof procedure which is of all-reaching importance.
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She pointed out that themereactof shutting out from a will a widow or a child leaves a slur.
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If the question depends on quotation, surely themereactof verbal quotation, the uttering of a few words, cannot make all the difference?
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It is a delusion to suppose that this was amereactof crusading enthusiasm or quixotic philanthropy.
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It appears to me to be amereactof justice.
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That does not appear to be a solution of any problem but amereactof folly.
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It means that the whole of the first year's expenditure is already provided for by themereactof transfer.
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But, even so, themereactof registration provides some security to the public.
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Themereactof a change of ownership has no such effect at all.
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Themereactof systematic collection will not in itself deal comprehensively with the problem.
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As a result of themereactand fact of trading she, a working woman, left a sum of money which surprised me.
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However, the amendment rightly aims to remove the odium from themereactof begging to meet real needs.
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But whether themereactof proscription will make the organisation any more easily dealt with is a matter for doubt.
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