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• But better still are the great things, the feeling of mercy.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2022
• El Shafee Elsheikh was treated with a great deal of mercy.
  — Matthew Barakat, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
• Yeoh plays Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, who doles out wisdom to Wei-Chin.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• In a show of mercy, Georgia punted to open the third quarter.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2023
• Mother of mercy, can this be the end of phony election claims?
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• But his moral qualms and the Christian concept of mercy don’t carry much weight here.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• The sword of mercy, called Curtana, has a blunt tip because ... mercy.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Cullen also revealed that his killings were acts of mercy.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 28 Oct. 2022
• The notion of assistance in dying as an act of mercy is centuries old.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2023
• Perhaps this is Mazin and Druckmann's way of telling the audience that sometimes acts of mercy can look an awful lot like acts of vengeance.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 12 Mar. 2023
• This is at best a sin of omission and, at worst, an act of mercy that aids these groups in appealing to more mainstream audiences.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
• This is at best a sin of omission and, at worst, an act of mercy that aids these groups in appealing to more mainstream audiences.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 20 June 2023
• For his other sins, Balzac doesn’t let Lucien off so easily, but that one act of mercy may well be the thing that redeems him in our eyes.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2021
• There is an argument to be made, though, that the loss of the money owed is a minimal price in the context of the profit that has been made, and that there is justice to this form of mercy.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 27 July 2022
• The quality of mercy, it is said, is twice blessed, but A.I. needs to be thrice blessed if business is to succeed in using the technology.
  — François Candelon, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2022
• In a show of mercy, Boston ran out the clock without attempting a shot on its final two possessions.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
• While most of us know fight or flight as the response to danger, there’s also freeze and fawn — that last one being a reaction to appease and acquiesce in the hopes of mercy.
  — Anita Chabriacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2022
• Greenlee, who was 16 years old at the time, received a recommendation of mercy from the jury and received a life sentence.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2021
• The main hall, used for most Buddhist services, houses a 25-foot statue of Kannon (the Buddhist goddess of mercy and compassion).
  — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Going back to its English monarchical origins, a pardon has long been conceived as an act of mercy.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 9 June 2023
• Going back to its English monarchical origins, a pardon has long been conceived as an act of mercy.
  — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
• Her repentance required remembering Krista and the Pearts’ gift to her of mercy and forgiveness.
  — Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2023
• Near the top, next to a shrine to the Buddhist goddess of mercy, managers from the state enterprise erected a giant billboard emblazoned with hammers and sickles.
  — Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• In this historic temple, Buddhists learn the teachings of Buddha from a humanoid, the robotic embodiment of the Buddhist goddess of mercy, Kannon.
  — Byhyerim Lee, ABC News, 15 June 2022
• Before Clementia, goddess of mercy, appeared on Roman coins.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• The terror of a military occupation and quiet moments of mercy among neighbors underpinned daily life for weeks in Vorzel, a suburb surrounded by birch forests that is home to a few thousand people.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• The coming propitiation looms large — an angel of mercy hovering over this melodrama, even at its most melodramatic.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
• The state’s second highest court batted down a legal challenge from two district attorneys and the families of four crime victims, who argued the governor’s acts of mercy were procedurally flawed and therefore unlawful.
  — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
• Despite an entirely circumstantial case with no eyewitnesses, the verdict came with no recommendation of mercy, and the judge sentenced Henderson to die in Georgia’s electric chair.
  — al, 3 Mar. 2023
• An America that recognizes the humanity within Mr. Floyd's life and legacy is one that possesses a quality of mercy so often denied to victims of police, state, and structural violence.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024