mere reflection

collocation in English

meaningsofmereandreflection

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mere
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mɪər/us
/mɪr/
used to emphasize that something is not large ...
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reflection
noun
uk
/rɪˈflek.ʃən/us
/rɪˈflek.ʃən/
the image of something in a mirror or on any ...
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(Definition ofmereandreflectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For instance, one can assert that elite discourse and collective narratives are epiphenomenal - amerereflectionof more fundamental structural conditions.
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For them, politics is not amerereflectionof social demands or preferences.
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We ought not to be amerereflectionof their transitory passions but something more.
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There is the object—and there the shadow, themerereflection!
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We have not been amerereflectionof public opinion outside.
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The fact is that the woman is supposed to be amerereflectionof her husband, whereas she has a distinct personality.
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Possessing these virtues, in virtue ethics, is what makes one moral, and one's actions are amerereflectionof one's inner morality.
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And dialectical philosophy, itself, is nothing more than themerereflectionof this process in the thinking brain.
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He believed that the physical world was amerereflectionof the more perfect abstract world.
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The intellectual light is amerereflectionand beyond it is the unknown mystery which it can not reveal.
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