leniency

The judge “withheld” a formal conviction, a form of leniency in Florida.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Amundson and Zemian’s hopes that their behavior would warrant some leniency were quickly dashed.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

In the past, the department has offered leniency to companies for helping to identify and prosecute the individuals who committed crimes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

He had visited Ellis in prison and received her agreement to an appeal to the Home Secretary for clemency - or leniency - but it was denied.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The nineteenth-century prescriptivist Richard White had no luck banning standpoint and washtub, nor did his contemporary William Cullen Bryant succeed in outlawing commence, compete, lengthy, and leniency.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

An executive at an Ohio company that makes natural gas engines argued that natural gas engines deserved the same regulatory leniencies as electric engines, which generate less pollution.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2020

The new legislation raised the threshold to $100 billion and instructed the Fed to consider leniencies for even larger banks.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

U.S. business has turned patron in a big way, partly out of tax leniencies, partly out of a new sense of community responsibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

The apparent firmness of their control was enabling the Reds to introduce important leniencies.

From Time Magazine Archive

The town, as Cantapresto had long since advised him, had its secret leniencies, its posterns opening on clandestine pleasure; but there was that in Odo which early turned him from such cheap counterfeits of living.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith