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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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In December, Lopez blocked that joint bid, saying the auction process was unfair, lacked transparency and the joint bid was questionable.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
5 July 2025
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To this day, Conner’s mother believes the settlement was unfair and saw it as a way to silence critics of the police.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
4 July 2025
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For decades, the Dodgers have gotten away with being the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos of Major League Baseball – a corporate entity with an undue, even unhealthy following by too many Latinos.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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Brazil's federal police also accused Luiz Fernando Corrêa, the head of the country's intelligence agency under Lula, of undue interference in investigations.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 June 2025
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According to court documents and several former Elkhart officers, their aggressive tactics here targeted citizens, especially Black residents, with harassment, unjustified force and bogus arrests.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
4 July 2025
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Whitehead said tensions are high because of misinformation being shared online calling the police shooting unjustified.—
Randy Tucker,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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Social media companies have already gotten several claims dismissed, including a claim of unjust enrichment, Goetz said, because Nazario failed to respond to them.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2025
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While courts in other states have peeled back this unjust advantage for government bureaucrats another venue for reform lies in democratic institutions—specifically, state legislatures.—
Jon Riches,
Oc Register,
27 June 2025
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Aimee Zavala, a twenty-nine-year-old who left the area around this time, believed that the police response was unmerited.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
9 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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But such deference is inappropriate and unwarranted under Supreme Court precedents when a law burdens a group that has been historically subjected to discrimination.—
Erwin Chemerinsky,
Mercury News,
22 June 2025
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Our elevated emotions surrounding this shopping holiday aren’t unwarranted either, since, almost exactly a year ago, Amazon doled out unprecedented markdowns and is now promising that even more goodies will soon come down the pike.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 June 2025
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