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Kim maintained a hiring pause, stopped merit raises and took “a hard look at a lot of our administrative expenses and our operations,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

While “The Social Reckoning” might stand in the shadow of its formative predecessor, the film confidently asserts its own merit.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

There, awkward circumstances in qualifying left him eighth on the grid when by merit he would have been on the front row.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the case of the theft statute, it is easy to imagine the legislators’ anticipating that new forms of personal property would come into use and would merit the same protection as older items.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Her study wall was covered with certificates of merit.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

On the merits, the policy is a dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"I think this is an important distinction that merits continued study, as it appears that increased autophagy flux may be good in younger people yet problematic in older people," said Kumsta.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Deserving as Mr. Hasan may be of his punishment, no one merits a lingering, possibly excruciating death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Major U.S. medical groups consider gender dysphoria a condition that merits treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Unlikely to win the battle on its merits, Edison devoted considerable resources to trying to discredit AC in the realm of public relations: AC, he and his supporters asserted, was much more lethal than DC.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The referee used the video assistant referee to review the play and determined it merited a red card.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Those governors thought a weakening labor market merited a cut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Another reason: Dealers increase implied volatility more than is merited to provide themselves with a margin of safety for having to make a market amid murky conditions.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

“They never would have merited a full-scale federal investigation,” he said.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2026

Our training officer com- merited on the fame of the building, how corrections officials from around the world came to visit it.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The book’s characters relate their stories in discrete sections that peel back time, revealing shocking secrets and meriting re-evaluation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

"They are accurate enough at this point to start meriting some consideration," he said.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023

"The Court should not mistake the FTC’s litigation gamesmanship for an emergency meriting this Court’s deviation from the ordinary appellate process," the company wrote.

From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023

One of the most entertaining teams in the Premier League and fully meriting a place in the Europa League for the first time in Brighton's history.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

They are usually of a rich yellowish-brown colour, patched with white, in some cases their colour almost meriting the appellation of “orange and lemon.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various