deserved

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Nancy Marzouk felt she didn’t get the respect she deserved as a sales executive in previous jobs, and she didn’t shrug it off.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Commissioner Frank Owens, a dissenting vote, said the mayor deserved some slack: “Everybody has a bad night.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

This is not to say that there weren’t some people who deserved to be fired.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

From custom numbers to archival pieces, cast members, new and old, impressed in gowns that deserved center spreads in Runway.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

To satisfy them, Archimedes also included a proof, based upon the accepted mathematics of the time, that relied upon the so-called axiom of Archimedes, although Archimedes himself mentioned that earlier mathematicians deserved the credit.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife