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merited

adjective as in earned

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The judge said the "vile, threatening and abusive" harassment of a former partner in 2022 on its own merited a custodial sentence.

From BBC

As a group, these musicians were more apt to die at younger ages than hundreds of thousands of other notable deceased people who merited space on Wikipedia, the pair found.

George Gascón, LA County's top prosecutor, announced on Thursday that new evidence in the case merited a review of their life sentences.

From BBC

When the Sum 41 frontman first sat down to write what would become his unflinching memoir, “Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell,” he genuinely didn’t think his life merited an autobiography.

“There is a reason why it was kind of understood that he would be the No. 1 overall pick and I think that’s been earned and merited,” McVay said.

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