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What does only to mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word only to? Here's what it means.

Conjunction
  1. Used to show that something is surprising, unexpected or vain
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A quick search led me not only to the accusatory tweets, but to the explosion of internet chatter that followed in their wake.
The Middle Passage served not only to erase a slave’s sense of human dignity, but the journey also wiped away the collective knowledge and cultural history of those captured.
Marmaduke returned to acol Court only to find his mother a broken invalid, and his father dead.
Propagation by seeds, then, is an inconvenient method, only to be resorted to for purposes of acclimation.
The Assassins kill without remorse in the name of the common folk, but they do so in secret, answerable only to each other.
She was apt not only to know what she talked about, but she was a woman of resource, unafraid of action.

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