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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are very lenient" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or authority that is forgiving or not strict in enforcing rules or standards.
Example: "The teachers at this school are very lenient when it comes to late assignments."
Alternatives: "are quite forgiving" or "are not strict".
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"Most parents of teens today have smoked pot, and they don't want to be hypocritical, so most of them are very lenient," he said.
The greatest advantage of using classical test theory is that the assumptions for the theoretical models are very lenient and easy to meet.
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Korean culture is very lenient on boys.
The government is very lenient with amateur smugglers.
"They were very lenient in letting me in," she said.
"Calling parts of the route ugly is being very lenient," Panagopoulos said.
"We have been very lenient in the restriction order imposed on her.
"The Malaysian authorities were very lenient and the Australian men were very repentant, but they do need to reflect very seriously on their conduct.
"I just think it is very lenient," Van Gundy said before the Knicks played Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals against Indiana.
Netflix has always been very lenient about the sharing of accounts, allowing you to set up multiple profiles and not restricting people from using them simultaneously like Spotify does.
After the McDonnell ruling, Stevenson told me, "It's a little ironic that the executive branch the Virginia courts and legislature have relied on to protect people from unfair sentences has now been exposed with evidence of corruption, but the remedy is to be very lenient toward the executive and let everyone else rot in prison".
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