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Recent Examples of lenience Experts say this level of lenience can lead to rebellion, risk-prone temperament, and unhealthy habits. Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 29 Sep. 2024 Trilogy pulled through because of customers who went out of their way to support the business and order food to-go, the landlord’s lenience with rent, the PPP funding, its outdoor space and the health focus of her business at a time when health was on everyone’s mind. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025 Conservative applicants also voiced concern about liberal LGBTQ laws and lenience on crime. Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024 Experts say this level of lenience can lead to rebellion, risk-prone temperament, and unhealthy habits. Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 29 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lenience
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lenience
Noun
  • This, in effect, frames even the movie’s unrelated, apolitical happenings as being at the mercy of this dangerous future, backed by Western powers.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 24 May 2025
  • Allowing the Chinese government to circumvent free trade guardrails will ultimately put the U.S. at the mercy of an international supply chain.
    Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • But the prosecutor’s request for leniency doesn’t stop there.
    Mike Fox, Oc Register, 12 May 2025
  • The move comes amid CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ongoing charm offensive to win over the Trump Administration, looking for leniency as Meta fights a federal antitrust lawsuit aiming to break it up.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025

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“Lenience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lenience. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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