comeuppance

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This is the second comeuppance for Beasley Allen, which was disqualified from New Jersey state court cases in February.

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In which we explore whether or not UConn’s stunning victory was a cosmic comeuppance.

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If “One of Us” is an entertaining family saga of privilege and comeuppance, it is also a consummate novel of suspense in which revelations detonate with lethal accuracy.

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In the climactic scene, Griffith’s Tess McGill convincingly demonstrates it was her idea all along while her boss gets her comeuppance.

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But the longed-for comeuppance of the brutish earl is as much an attraction to the series as Ms. Peckham.

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