have mercy

phrase

: to treat with kindness and forgiveness

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May Allah grant them victory and have mercy on their martyrs. Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026 Sanaa Lathan has the last word, Lord have mercy. Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026 Earlier this month, The Washington Post’s John Woodrow Cox reported on a retiree who used a publicly available email address to encourage an attorney at the Department of Homeland Security to have mercy on an asylum seeker. David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026 Rocha’s public defender, Stephen Reynolds, urged the jury to have mercy on him because of the trauma throughout his life and his impairments. Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for have mercy

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“Have mercy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/have%20mercy. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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