deserved
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Parcel delivery, California regulators declared in 1926, was “essentially different” from other trucking and deserved special consideration, language others would follow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Zuckerberg and Meta have been on the receiving end of a lot of bad headlines over the years, many of them fully deserved.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
These greats built the mecca they needed and deserved, debating its contours, wanting it to last.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Wyoming paleontologist Bill Wahl, who has devoted much of his career to searching for fossils across the state, recognized that the unusual specimen deserved closer examination.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
His punishment was deserved, but his daughter suffered as terribly as he and she was innocent of all wrong.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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