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Recent Examples of undeserved
Grace is an undeserved gift, heaven is real, and Jesus died for our sins.
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Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
In 1998, Moore started an eponymous foundation to provide educational, cultural and recreational activities for undeserved youth.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
It’s not always taken seriously enough, despite the fact that employees cite office gossip as their number one pet peeve more than pointless meetings, coworkers taking undeserved credit and micromanagement.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Also, the feeling of blind, random, even undeserved confidence.
—James Factora, Them., 28 Apr. 2025
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Maureen MacKey, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
In 1998, Moore started an eponymous foundation to provide educational, cultural and recreational activities for undeserved youth.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
It’s not always taken seriously enough, despite the fact that employees cite office gossip as their number one pet peeve more than pointless meetings, coworkers taking undeserved credit and micromanagement.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Also, the feeling of blind, random, even undeserved confidence.
—James Factora, Them., 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeserved
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Utility commissioners ruled in favor of power companies, which argued that older versions of the program created an unfair cost burden on customers.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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Union employees at Stillwater Medical Group have reached a tentative agreement with HealthPartners, just two days after voting to authorize another unfair labor practices strike.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
7 Aug. 2025
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Attorneys for Merit Street Media filed a response stating that the request from PBR was not reasonable and placed an undue burden on Merit Street.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Aug. 2025
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The investigation team questioned Kim for about seven hours on Wednesday on various allegations, including claims that Yoon and Kim exerted undue influence over the conservative party's candidate nominations for a parliamentary by-election in 2022.—
KIM TONG-HYUNG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
8 Aug. 2025
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Of course, that panic was unjustified, as the emails referred to a change in Google’s inactive account policy, which meant that those left unused for two years were being deleted.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
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By intervening to revive this suit, the Court facilitates precisely the 'unjustified delay' that it is supposed to prevent in capital cases.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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Fiction itself is utopian, too, a space where the unjust logic of inheritance and privilege can be questioned, rearranged or reversed.—
Nell Stevens
August 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
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Due process El Centro, a nonprofit that serves Hispanic families in the Kansas City area, condemned the Kansas raids as unjust and dehumanizing.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
2 Aug. 2025
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The very picture of God’s unmerited favor and love.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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Aimee Zavala, a twenty-nine-year-old who left the area around this time, believed that the police response was unmerited.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The vaunting acclaim the retrospective elicited seems largely unwarranted, though in several brilliant sequences scattered throughout his work, the unruly Rozier achieved an impulsive kind of mastery.—
James Quandt,
The New York Review of Books,
31 July 2025
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Glenn said just a day earlier that the hoopla on social media was unwarranted as many feared that the latest Jets’ signal caller could miss significant time like his predecessor, Aaron Rodgers, did in his first season in New York.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
26 July 2025
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“Undeserved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeserved. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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