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  • present tense form of deserve (3rd person singular).

deserves



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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour put a symphony orchestra on stage alongside the actors in a savage satire which dramatised the plight of Soviet dissidents locked away in mental hospitals.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

“He’s just an unbelievable player. Deserves everything he just got in that contract and more.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2022

“Definitely one of the best players in the world. Deserves to be where he is,” Djokovic said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2020

There is the night light from his childhood bedroom and a Tony Blair placard with the now-ironic slogan, “Britain Deserves Better.”

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2019

"Here's how. I rather think so, you know. Deserves to be, anyhow. Knows hell's own amount about people. Don't know where he got it all. Owns a chain of sweetshops in the States."

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway



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