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Image: Acer Acer’s other new handheld PC, the Nitro Blaze 8, is mercifully smaller, with an 8.8-inch screen.
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Jay Peters, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
This Old Yeller season is mercifully over, and now both the owner and his head coach must make a decision.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Jan. 2025
The lineman was still relishing Michigan’s national championship parade when Philadelphia’s meltdown mercifully reached its end.
—Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Algorithmic stablecoins, mercifully, died long ago by their own hand.
—Sean Lee, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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Jay Peters, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
This Old Yeller season is mercifully over, and now both the owner and his head coach must make a decision.
—Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Jan. 2025
The lineman was still relishing Michigan’s national championship parade when Philadelphia’s meltdown mercifully reached its end.
—Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Algorithmic stablecoins, mercifully, died long ago by their own hand.
—Sean Lee, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Mercifully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercifully. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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