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"We could win with luck, but we won with calmness and with all merit," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Additionally, motivation, even beyond the content creation monetization that Adams pointed out, can sometimes be connected exclusively to the idea of supporting and amplifying Black art and artists while deprioritizing inquiries of their merit.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Kim maintained a hiring pause, stopped merit raises and took “a hard look at a lot of our administrative expenses and our operations,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

BBC Sport has been told that there is no automatic mechanism to remove City from a European competition they qualify for on sporting merit.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

And then he spoke: “We do not really merit the grace of God if we refuse to think about the words we sing. ‘

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

As the debate over their merits intensifies, the data centre rollout continues.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

During the court’s most recent term, they voted together in 94 percent of cases on the merits docket.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

On the merits, the policy is a dog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But lately the leaders at the 125-year-old law firm spent hours discussing the merits of italics within a custom-made typeface and selecting the exact shade of blue that best communicates the energy of its lawyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Scores of sports columns in publications of every stripe focused on the merits of the two horses.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

However, Kuwaki more than merited her celebrations in the fading daylight, not that you could have missed her with her mint-green top and luminous green ball.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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

Investor demand and limited stock supply means options implied volatility will likely be higher than merited.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Those governors thought a weakening labor market merited a cut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Even at war, soldiers of the crown hardly merited that term, which belonged to ancient battles and bloodcurdling cries.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

In the brand-conscious ‘80s, the right item of designer clothing could make or break a kid’s popularity, meriting a Gartrell name drop in “A Shirt Story,” a Hall of Fame-level episode of “The Cosby Show.”

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2025

“They are accurate enough at this point to start meriting some consideration,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

These impressions, derived only, but justly, from this repulsive spot, have had a tendency to depreciate the city, and fasten upon it a bad name, which it is very far from meriting.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham