Of course, a mere machine has no power to turn bad food into good.
However, a mere 20 machines were assigned for this purpose.
What more can you ask from a mere machine?
How could she have any sort of psychic link to a mere machine?
Still, the voices are what turn all three into services instead of mere machines.
He is in some measure a mere machine, or rather a part of one.
It is a mere machine, going about its job.
No wonder humans had always refused to think of themselves as mere machines.
These were far more than mere machines, he thought.
The Principle would have nothing to do with a mere machine.