more forgiving

Example Sentences

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Many feature lower credit limits, educational tools and approval standards that are more forgiving than those for traditional cards.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Forward Trevor Moore was a little more forgiving.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 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

After exiting the competition that night, the Forest boss was highly critical of the players who had come into the team but he more forgiving on this occasion.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 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