merits
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Chatting at a hot yoga studio, students debated the merits of a festival that has defined much of the town’s culture.
Generally, knowing an artist’s biography isn’t essential to the experience of the work, which must live on its own merits.
Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, whose office kicked off the inquiry, said External link this month that her office “makes decisions based on the merits, nothing more and nothing less.”
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Despite the merits of his case, DHS never supported his asylum claim.
“The Great Shadow” has many merits, but it leans heavily on infectious-disease literature that is at least a generation out of date.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.