lenience

Example Sentences

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"It's difficult with professors who themselves have busy schedules, trying to say, 'oh, can I have a 20-minute lenience window?' It's quite embarrassing."

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

But a defense lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, made a case for lenience in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday, as a crowd of Mr. Philbrick’s supporters looked on from the gallery.

From New York Times • May 23, 2022

He had rebuffed every overture to cut a deal, to plead, to inform on codefendants in exchange for lenience.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

Minari’s Alan Kim probably gets dress-code lenience for his red-carpet shorts because he’s a kid, and because they’re Thom Browne.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2021

It should be specially stated that lenience could not and was not extended to the point of fraternisation.

From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Gibbons, Floyd