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more forgiving

ADJECTIVE
sparing
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Rose will play with McLaren irons and is likely to use the more forgiving game-improver versions at the long end of the bag and blades for the rest.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Consumers may be more forgiving if the Samsung fridges were sold at a discount in exchange for showing ads, said Avinash Collis, who researches the economics of digitization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

While sports may be a more forgiving milieu for him, Wasserman’s reputation within the relatively progressive music industry could be too tarnished for him to remain.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

I’d be a little more forgiving and suggest that your response to their gratitude could have been to indicate that you expected them to pay you back.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 28, 2026

For the rest of her life she imagined her cousins worked for kind and generous masters up north, engaged in more forgiving trades than her own, weaving or spinning, nothing in the fields.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead



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