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- noun Alternative spelling of
mercy killing . - noun sports In sports, a premature ending of a one-sided game or contest due to a
mercy rule . - verb sports Present participle of
mercy -kill .
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Examples
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There's no other way of describing it, Clarke says about the mercy-killing scene.
Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on the Fiery Finale: "Dragons Trump Everything" 2011
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There's no other way of describing it, Clarke says about the mercy-killing scene.
Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on the Fiery Finale: "Dragons Trump Everything" 2011
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Pepperdine's first-round loss to Loyola Marymount in the West Coast Conference tournament was a mercy-killing for the Waves.
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“I thought she meant giving soup to dirty people and mercy-killing stray dogs.”
THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE Adrienne Maria Vrettos 2010
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“I thought she meant giving soup to dirty people and mercy-killing stray dogs.”
THE EXILE OF GIGI LANE Adrienne Maria Vrettos 2010
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In this class, a pastoral-theological approach will be used to examine, reflect and develop responses to difficult moral and ethical issues such as test tube and designer babies, facts and fallacies of stem cell therapies, cloning, abortion, mercy-killing, living will, gene therapy, and aesthetic surgery
Archive 2010-06-01 Alex Tang 2010
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In this class, a pastoral-theological approach will be used to examine, reflect and develop responses to difficult moral and ethical issues such as test tube and designer babies, facts and fallacies of stem cell therapies, cloning, abortion, mercy-killing, living will, gene therapy, and aesthetic surgery.
Archive 2010-03-01 Alex Tang 2010
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It didn't help us settle the question of who had began the string of infidelities that would soon culminate in a mutual mercy-killing of our ill-conceived and extremely brief union.
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If they were really interested in mercy-killing sick seals they would have been on the beaches euthanising them for the past two months.
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So while then-House Minority Leader John Boehner and Rep. Thad McCotter of Michigan issued a statement warning of "a more permissive environment for euthanasia, mercy-killing and physician-assisted suicide," my mother was facing her own end, an end that she believed to be deemed by God, not by the government.
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