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begrudges



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“No one begrudges a nation that generates the most innovative ideas and from them develops the best technology,” John Demers, former assistant attorney general for national security, said in a 2018 hearing before the U.S.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

You will be hard-pressed to find anyone who begrudges her absence from the celebrations; in more than seven decades of service, she has given so much.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2022

No one begrudges healthcare companies’ earning a fair profit.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2021

No one begrudges the man who walked behind his mother’s coffin a rush of joy at the birth of his first child.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2019

Yes, the birds earn their way, there is no denying it, and he is a very stupid farmer who begrudges them the little corn and wheat they take from the fields.

From Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird by Patterson, Virginia Sharpe