merciless
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French and British health services reported a surge in emergency calls and visits as the merciless heat struck the elderly and the ill.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
He was exacting, charming and merciless in equal measure.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
The journalist James Agee’s merciless portraits of his subjects remind Mr. Frazier of “those old-time operations that were done on a kitchen table without anesthetic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Unlike, for example, Molly Jong-Fast’s merciless “How to Lose Your Mother,” “Bad Bad Girl” doesn’t read like a hit job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
The moon shone down with what felt like merciless force, but it was unable to penetrate the canopy of the leaves.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing merciless
Hamilton
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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