rightfully
Example Sentences
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Pacific Coast Energy is negotiating to operate Venezuelan oil fields that the prominent Cisneros family asserts it rightfully owns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
This leaves disgruntled adult children weighing what to do to reclaim money they feel is rightfully theirs.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Lieutenant Samuel Frost, an Officer Commanding, said Freeman would be "sorely missed, rightfully commemorated, and never forgotten".
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Watching a capybara come when called is a highly Instagrammable moment, my in-person proof that capybaras have rightfully earned their status as a 2020s internet meme.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Swann rightfully protested; he declared that he had been attacked in public and would answer in public.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
