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Recent Examples of unmerited
There’s barely a line of dialogue from any secondary character that doesn’t sound ripped from Twitter — not unmerited, just fatiguing.
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Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Amin had a penchant for strutting around in public wearing a military jacket full of flashy but unmerited awards.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
Lest you be concerned, there's no unmerited nepotism here.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The very picture of God’s unmerited favor and love.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 July 2025
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
Now, half a century ago, Congress realized that Social Security benefit windfalls for public sector employees were costly, unnecessary and unmerited.
—Andrew Biggs, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Some have claimed that the cuts are unmerited, given that culture funding accounts for just over 2 percent of Berlin city budget.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Dec. 2024
But such intercommunal attacks, however vicious and unmerited, are not the cause of the M23 rebellion but a response to it: many Congolese of other ethnicities automatically assume local Tutsis support the rebel group and have therefore lashed out against them.
—Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Amin had a penchant for strutting around in public wearing a military jacket full of flashy but unmerited awards.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
Lest you be concerned, there's no unmerited nepotism here.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The very picture of God’s unmerited favor and love.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 24 July 2025
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
Now, half a century ago, Congress realized that Social Security benefit windfalls for public sector employees were costly, unnecessary and unmerited.
—Andrew Biggs, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Some have claimed that the cuts are unmerited, given that culture funding accounts for just over 2 percent of Berlin city budget.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 6 Dec. 2024
But such intercommunal attacks, however vicious and unmerited, are not the cause of the M23 rebellion but a response to it: many Congolese of other ethnicities automatically assume local Tutsis support the rebel group and have therefore lashed out against them.
—Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmerited
Adjective
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Imposter syndrome is typically defined as the belief that your success is undeserved, paired with a fear of being exposed as a fraud.—
Yann Dang,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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As a general rule, English sides tend to win European Cup finals against foreign opposition by not really competing in midfield and somehow scraping a somewhat ‘undeserved’ win.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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Marlowe earned the right — even in an increasingly unfair business — to exit on his terms.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
11 June 2026
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France having him and Saliba is frankly unfair.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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Traditionally, courts have used the Brunner test to determine undue hardship.—
John Csiszar,
CNBC,
2 June 2026
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Gambling on the health of an already unhealthy roster also has placed undue burden on veteran point guard Skylar Diggins.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Yet every era also runs the risk of creating an inhumane and more unjust world.—
Pope Leo XIV,
Boston Herald,
9 June 2026
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If the law produces an outcome that society finds unjust, the remedy is the legislature — not a judge deciding to rewrite the law from the bench.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Daily News,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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Ironically, unjustified but loud fears about Ebola may distract us from the infectious disease threats that are far more plausible during a mass gathering event that will bring millions of people from around the globe into close contact.—
Krutika Kuppalli,
STAT,
28 May 2026
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The low score was attributed to unjustified review bombing with the key evidence for this being that the show's Rotten Tomatoes critics' score stands at a more respectable 79%.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
Adjective
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Bounds joked that Evans lives rent-free in his opponents’ heads, while two of Bounds’ friends, Kristen Saponaro Fleming-Wood and Angie Thor, both of whom are politically involved, said the vitriol directed at Evans is unwarranted.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
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Two big pockets handle the essentials, the stripe pattern handles the styling, and the $17 price handles the (unwarranted) guilt of an impulse buy.—
Jill Layton,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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