mercy
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Sentencing Ali on Wednesday, Recorder Simon James said people had been "packed into every inch of available space", and were left "at the mercy of the unpredictable sea".
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam addressed Iran's leaders in frank terms during a press conference, saying: "Have mercy on our south, stop treating it and its people as merely a bargaining chip."
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
The entire stock market will soon become, for all intents and purposes, the meme-stock market, and your retirement accounts are at the mercy of their whims.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
El Camino Real 11, South Gate 0: The Royals picked up a five-inning mercy rule win behind JJ Saffie, who had three hits and four RBIs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Since most villages lived by cultivating a very limited variety of domesticated plants and animals, they were at the mercy of droughts, floods and pestilence.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing mercy
"The Crucible" -- Vocabulary from all 4 Acts
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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