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Recent Examples of undeserved
It’s not always taken seriously enough, despite the fact that employees cite office gossip as their number one pet peeve more than pointless meetings, coworkers taking undeserved credit and micromanagement.
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Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Also, the feeling of blind, random, even undeserved confidence.
—James Factora, Them., 28 Apr. 2025
And companies that use corruption to get undeserved business typically perform poorly, providing deficient products, infrastructure, and services that harm consumers.
—Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2025
That praise isn’t undeserved, by any means, especially since Adrien Brody gives a flawless performance as a brilliant Hungarian architect — an artist of genius — struggling to put his stamp on the American landscape in the years after World War II.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
Also, the feeling of blind, random, even undeserved confidence.
—James Factora, Them., 28 Apr. 2025
And companies that use corruption to get undeserved business typically perform poorly, providing deficient products, infrastructure, and services that harm consumers.
—Richard Nephew, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2025
That praise isn’t undeserved, by any means, especially since Adrien Brody gives a flawless performance as a brilliant Hungarian architect — an artist of genius — struggling to put his stamp on the American landscape in the years after World War II.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeserved
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Yes, deploying them can help U.S. manufacturers compete against the unfair, subsidized trade practices of other countries.—
Ethan Karp,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Many prominent advocates for excluding transgender girls from sports praised Dhillon’s actions last week as a bold move to protect cisgender girls from unfair competition.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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Bonus: The mask is cut into two halves, so guys with beards can use it without undue grooming mishaps.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
13 June 2025
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Other clubs are present thanks to a ranking system that takes in league and continental results over the past five seasons, but even that is flawed and gives undue prominence to achievements from three or four years ago.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
13 June 2025
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This unchecked growth and unjustified techno-optimism comes with incredible environmental consequences, including expanding demand for computing power, larger carbon footprints, shifts in patterns of electricity and water demands and an accelerated depletion of natural resources.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
10 June 2025
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In every other similar incident in Baltimore between 1867 and 1910, no case of unjustified use of force by a white police officer against a Black person ever got past a coroner’s jury, much less a court of law.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 May 2025
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Other claims in the complaint include tortious interference and unjust enrichment.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
8 June 2025
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This amendment [fixes] that defect and allows Congress to correct the unjust legislation of the States, so far that the law which operates upon one man shall operate equally upon all.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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Now, half a century ago, Congress realized that Social Security benefit windfalls for public sector employees were costly, unnecessary and unmerited.—
Andrew Biggs,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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Some have claimed that the cuts are unmerited, given that culture funding accounts for just over 2 percent of Berlin city budget.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
6 Dec. 2024
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His biggest issue going into Pittsburgh last year [from Denver] was taking unwarranted sacks.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2025
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But according to the National Tactical Officers Association, what happened next —agents using flash-bang grenades — was unwarranted.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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“Undeserved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeserved. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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