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as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
The border region's unforgiving terrain—including deserts, mountains, and remote wilderness can be treacherous in the winter, amplifying the danger posed to migrants.
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
As data continues to become the lifeblood of modern business strategy, the marketplace is becoming increasingly unforgiving.
—Dr. Milan Kumar, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Gibbs said the opportunity to be part of the brigade and undergo training empowers community members who have suffered loss in previous unforgiving fires.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
These changes have created an increasingly unforgiving roster-building landscape, forcing the Knicks — and teams in similar situations — to find creative solutions.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
As data continues to become the lifeblood of modern business strategy, the marketplace is becoming increasingly unforgiving.
—Dr. Milan Kumar, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Gibbs said the opportunity to be part of the brigade and undergo training empowers community members who have suffered loss in previous unforgiving fires.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
These changes have created an increasingly unforgiving roster-building landscape, forcing the Knicks — and teams in similar situations — to find creative solutions.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 13 Dec. 2024
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That said, Enlisted was a terrific show, an unlikely alchemy of broad sitcom laughs and actual patriotism, and Brockmire was one of my favorite shows of the past decade, a deliriously profane comedy with an uncompromising sweetness.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
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Now his Pulitzer winner, Nickel Boys, has been turned into an equally uncompromising yet at times surprisingly lyrical film directed by RaMell Ross.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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According to Howard, comparisons of the two, due to similarities such as he and Shaq both being drafted No. 1 overall by the Orlando Magic and playing the center position, led Shaq to become resentful of him.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Incompatible partners, on harder days, may consistently feel resentful, combative or simply annoyed in one another’s presence.Mark Travers, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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His upbringing left him with a speech impediment and an unyielding desire to make something of his life.airmail.news, airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
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The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure.Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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And having more thoughtful conversations doesn’t preclude the need sometimes to confront those who are needlessly cruel or organizations that benefit from such exploitation.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Jan. 2025
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In recent months, the Justice Department and the state filed thousands of pages of new records in the lawsuit, including reports and sworn statements from pediatricians, scholars and others who describe Florida’s policies as archaic and cruel.Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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Mangum wasn’t the only fraudster who preyed on the Left’s uncharitable assumptions about young white men, in particular, but non-minorities broadly.The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
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He was tapped to star in the 1979 basketball comedy The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, which survived uncharitable reviews to become a cult classic over the years.David Aldridge, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Share [Findings] Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The end of the JCPOA made a spiteful Iran even more aggressive.Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
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Epps turned out to be an especially sadistic master.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2025
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And although her character, the bitter and often sadistic Beth Dutton, may have tired of her surroundings, Reilly told Travel + Leisure ahead of the show's Sunday finale that she'll forever be astounded by the beauty of the show's setting in real life.Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2024
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The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid tumors than rats who weren’t given the food coloring.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Their mother, Noel Mickelson, died in 2016 from sepsis caused by bed sores, and a malignant tumor, according to Shannon Amos.Elizabeth Maline, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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