deserving
Example Sentences
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Forty-eight MPAs have already been identified as part of an "ecologically significant" network of places "deserving of enhanced protection".
From BBC
Players from the lower-ranked teams expressed their keenness to perform, not just to cause an upset but also to prove they are deserving of the greater opportunities they so desperately seek.
From BBC
She also had the power to boost deserving people otherwise overlooked by agencies and designers by vouching for them.
From Salon
It’s up to your parents to decide who the “right” people are and who is deserving of their assets after they pass away.
From MarketWatch
His success in liberating deserving people who would otherwise be rotting away in prison—even if he was motivated only by vanity—suggests he may very well deserve the Nobel.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
