merciless
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The heat index -- which measures how hot it feels based on temperature and humidity combined -- was even more merciless.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
At the Australian Open in 2025, he was outclassed in a merciless performance by Jannik Sinner that left Zverev saying he felt mentally "empty" a few months later.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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
Aux soldiers, though not as highly trained as legionnaires and nothing compared to Masks, are still merciless hunters.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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