merits

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She spoke of one audience member, a relative of someone who was murdered, who became more open to a debate about the merits of capital punishment after seeing the opera.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Your columnist sounds like a broken record talking about the comparative merits of inflation-protected Treasury bonds, known as TIPS.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

Instead, the Supreme Court “deferred” judgment in the cases, then moved them off the shadow docket and onto the merits docket, setting oral arguments for April.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2026

The questionable merits of the song, performance and production value aside, the video is the best argument yet for why AI “performers” are a limited threat.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

Thereafter never a week went by but she brought news of this boy or that, and she and I and Nathan spent long hours trying to assess their relative merits.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya