deserving

Example Sentences

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While the strategists say those sectors are deserving of higher values, tech is being overly punished despite strong growth rates.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

In a few places, we included a deserving player at a secondary position, if his primary position was fully stocked.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Also deserving of your time is Ignacio Gatica’s video about Sanhattan, the district in Santiago, Chile, that intentionally resembles Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Forty-eight MPAs have already been identified as part of an "ecologically significant" network of places "deserving of enhanced protection".

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Of all the wishes people had brought him—money, love, revenge—this seemed to him the most poignant and the one most deserving of fulfillment.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison