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What does at the mercy of mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at the mercy of? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic) In the power of; defenceless/defenseless against.
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These policies have left us badly exposed and at the mercy of natural phenomena like drought.
I think human beings in the 21st century are at the mercy of so many things.
I was quite literally at the mercy of the Inquisition and was completely unable to tell a lie.
You are at the mercy of Mother Nature and toil long, hard hours in the knowledge that you could earn more working in a supermarket.
Even the excessive amount of time I am spending at the mercy of my employers is not enough to dampen my spirits.
What is set up as a life and death struggle, a dying father at the mercy of experimental science, is left unresolved.

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