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deserving

adjective as in worthy, meritorious

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"These jellyfish are dangerous and perhaps a bit scary to some, but also beautiful creatures that are deserving of continued research and classification efforts," adds Ayane Totsu.

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But he was delighted when he caught up with the news, even if he accepts he is still a long way from deserving such a link.

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Nevertheless, “Devil in Disguise” interrogates the police’s tendency to mischaracterize his victims, fueling the media and the public’s subsequent rush to cast the dead as somehow deserving of their fate.

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Anthropic’s business prospects—and the shrewdness of its main investors, Amazon and Google—may be more deserving of notice.

The question now is whether the president will use his political leverage and capital to take the bold action necessary to make himself truly deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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