rightful

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If the money originally came from a compromised account, the rightful owner will eventually flag the transaction as fraudulent.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

Airport employees were quickly on-hand to return the animal to its rightful place in the great outdoors.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

It had bastard status among classical culturati from the get-go, which kept it out of the concert halls where it arguably belonged as a rightful heir to other long-form orchestral music.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Yet the entire world considers it the rightful property of Somalia, the vortex of unending chaos from which Hargeisa declared its independence in 1991.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

In giving me my name, my parents had deprived the Angel of Death of his rightful due.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros