merit
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From a business standpoint, analysts see merit to a potential combination, which Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday is currently under discussion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
But if ever a day showed Australia there is merit in moving from one generation to another it was this.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Does that mean the administration’s suit has merit?
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Costs of defending against such litigation, regardless of merit, are considerable,” the prospectus says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
In another universe, the calculations I do to figure this out would be worthy of some academic merit.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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Sorkin responded to criticisms with pleasant diplomacy, even questioning his own merits as a director versus a screenwriter.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
My focus is not on the substantive merits of the charges, the government’s exercise of its prosecutorial discretion to pursue these charges, or the close-to-an-election timing of the initiation of the prosecution.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
She works on programming art and installations at LAX that showcase the city’s vibrant arts scene, including its literary merits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
As the debate over their merits intensifies, the data centre rollout continues.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
The only reason they got involved in speed-dating is that they once had an argument at a party about the relative merits of arranged marriages and love marriages.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Although her books were hugely successful in America, she never really found the fame she merited here in the UK, partly because of her reticence to do any promotion.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The referee used the video assistant referee to review the play and determined it merited a red card.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
In the early days, spreads are often wider than merited, and volatility levels are unusually elevated.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
This latter group included people with the good sense and courage to express disagreement with the president and urge caution when it was merited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Neither Orellana’s journey nor Carvajal’s account of it received the attention they merited; indeed, Carvajal’s work was not formally published until 1894.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The book’s characters relate their stories in discrete sections that peel back time, revealing shocking secrets and meriting re-evaluation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
"They are accurate enough at this point to start meriting some consideration," he said.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023
"The Court should not mistake the FTC’s litigation gamesmanship for an emergency meriting this Court’s deviation from the ordinary appellate process," the company wrote.
From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023
The coronavirus can mutate rapidly, potentially upending the public health landscape and meriting a different response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
Rising out of these considerations are two others equally meriting attention.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
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