merit

Coley says people should be judged on merit.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Lasser joked in a 1976 article in The Times that her role as Mary Hartman might merit identification beyond being Woody Allen’s ex-wife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

It will reduce overtime and suspend some merit raises, among other cost-cutting measures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Its logic reaches the labor board, the merit board, and the trade commission and ratifies the removals the court had already waved through at the consumer-product, surface-transportation, and employment agencies.

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

The man is, in any event, by all accounts a fool: too fantastical of temperament and childish of observation to merit trust; but too trusting to merit confidence.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

In her order, Sykes said the plaintiffs “have demonstrated they are likely to prevail — or at the least, raise serious questions — on the merits of their Fifth Amendment and Rehabilitation Act claims.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Norway’s focus on fun has its merits, but the problem I see today in American youth sports isn’t the score-keeping.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Mr Justice Nicklin refused to make a finding as to whether what became known as unlawful information gathering had become "widespread and habitual" at Associated Newspapers and instead decided the merits of each individual claim.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Where a size-based privilege can’t be defended on the merits, it has no place in federal law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Howard began to see the merits of the race.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

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

Sentencing, Sheriff Watson accepted Crampsie had a "lesser degree of culpability" but said her decision was "reckless" and it merited a jail sentence.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

Another reason: Dealers increase implied volatility more than is merited to provide themselves with a margin of safety for having to make a market amid murky conditions.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

This, though, was to be a major broadcast; somehow we all felt it merited the large old set with its elaborate speaker.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Mental-health professionals are recognizing chatbot delusions and psychosis as a phenomenon meriting further study.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

The Chicago Fed president acknowledged a reversal in rental and other housing inflation after months of easing was a "negative surprise" meriting a "proper element of caution", according to the report.

From Reuters ● Oct. 16, 2023

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

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023

One of the most entertaining teams in the Premier League and fully meriting a place in the Europa League for the first time in Brighton's history.

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

There was nothing in the aspect of the house meriting description—it was roomy, ill-lit, full of draughts and dust—one of those houses we know so well.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus