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a well deserved promotion for a hard worker
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Jessica's unborn telepathic daughter, Alia, is a much more disconcerting presence than the precocious kid in Lynch's movie, and the manipulative Bene Gesserit are given some deserved time in the spotlight as cosmic string-pullers-in-chief.
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Two first half goals from Claudio Aquino and Damián Fernández sealed a deserved league title for Vélez, on a tense final day where three different clubs might have lifted the trophy.
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Fashion has taken a lot of heat — and much of it well deserved — for being focused too much on surface and not enough on substance.
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Two first half goals from Claudio Aquino and Damián Fernández sealed a deserved league title for Vélez, on a tense final day where three different clubs might have lifted the trophy.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Fashion has taken a lot of heat — and much of it well deserved — for being focused too much on surface and not enough on substance.
—Lily Templeton, WWD, 16 Dec. 2024
Company Veteran rhyme slinger Skyzoo took some much deserved time away from the music scene off the heels of his Mind of a Saint album, a conceptual masterpiece that garnered heaping amounts of praise for imagining the ministate of Snowfall protagonist Franklin Saint.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Deserved.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deserved. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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deserved
adjective
de·served
-ˈzərvd 
: of, relating to, or being that which one deserves
a deserved punishment
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