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Tyger Campbell continually got the roll on tough jumpers, as if the basketball gods were rewarding him for all those years of toil.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2023

Prosecutors say that while UAE officials were consorting with Barrack, they were rewarding him by pouring millions of dollars into his business ventures.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2022

Cavalier, who lives in Marin County, Calif., said her years at Catholic were rewarding, on the whole.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2016

Bowie kept moving, even if not all his explorations were rewarding; his 1990s band Tin Machine produced some unlistenable noise.

From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2016

And then, quite as if he were rewarding our manifest zeal for exploration, he added, "Come along with me and you can see the big commandant, too."

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys