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Examples of deserved in a Sentence
a well deserved promotion for a hard worker
Recent Examples of deserved from the Web
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Yes, McClure resigned—after public shaming—and his alleged harassment will now be common knowledge, a shameful, deserved asterisk next to his name.
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The party continued well into the night, with guests celebrating the end of a busy fall Couture Week before a much-deserved summer break.
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Darkest Dungeon gets plenty of (somewhat deserved) guff for overtaxing its same few areas to support a very long game.
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Despite this, of the 54 percent who forfeited their deserved time off, 92 percent expressed that vacation was important to them.
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Nussbaum has earned a well-deserved reputation as a stage great comfortable in the role of playing history's great men.
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On June 28, Magulick will be inducted into the South Jersey Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in well-deserved recognition of a career dedicated to teaching young people the best lessons that sports have to offer.
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This is a Shakespearean tragedy; this is a fall from grace that is both unfortunate and well deserved.
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With deserved pride, Pollitzer affirms that Equality Florida has been in the state capital every year since 2007, and the group has either blocked or neutralized every single piece of anti-LGBT legislation filed since then.
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First Known Use of deserved
circa 1552
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