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Recent Examples of mercilessly
Be Ruthless In Your Shoe Edit Shoes are notoriously bulky, but Jones recommends editing mercilessly.
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Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
Comedians mercilessly mocked their audiences, and audiences liked to punch back.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Even for someone used to covering for her daughter’s wrongdoings, Tracey is remarkably self-possessed as Laura pries mercilessly into her life and accuses Cherry of every crime under the sun.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Here, a beautiful beachfront feels mercilessly untouched.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
But recent studies have shown how social media algorithms mercilessly push manosphere content toward young men — and that content is quickly interspersed with other even more extremist ideas.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Earlier this month, a music video mercilessly mocking Sanseitō went viral, suggesting the potential for containing its rise.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
The scene signals viewers are in for more of what critics mercilessly panned the first time around.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
There are only three certainties in life… death, taxes and Jim Harbaugh wanting the run the football mercilessly.
—Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
Comedians mercilessly mocked their audiences, and audiences liked to punch back.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Even for someone used to covering for her daughter’s wrongdoings, Tracey is remarkably self-possessed as Laura pries mercilessly into her life and accuses Cherry of every crime under the sun.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Here, a beautiful beachfront feels mercilessly untouched.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
But recent studies have shown how social media algorithms mercilessly push manosphere content toward young men — and that content is quickly interspersed with other even more extremist ideas.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Earlier this month, a music video mercilessly mocking Sanseitō went viral, suggesting the potential for containing its rise.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
The scene signals viewers are in for more of what critics mercilessly panned the first time around.
—Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
There are only three certainties in life… death, taxes and Jim Harbaugh wanting the run the football mercilessly.
—Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mercilessly
Adverb
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Make decision-making ruthlessly efficient.—
Erik Huberman,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Scott’s death has been compared to that of Matthew Shepard, the young gay American brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, in 1998, who became an emblem for a reckoning with anti-gay violence.—
Eren Orbey,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, only two years after her native Belarus, still a Kremlin satellite, brutally crushed its democracy movement.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The Justices have also harshly criticized lower-court judges who have blocked the Administration’s actions, including Young, who went so far as to apologize from the bench.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Despite those concessions, the law has been harshly criticized by Neighbors for a Better California, a group that advocates for preservation of single-family neighborhoods.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Mercilessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercilessly. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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