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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are deserved" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the phrase when describing something someone has earned or to emphasize that something is deserved. For example: "The accolades she has received for her hard work are deserved."
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are deserved
verb
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
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Although it may be too long, the plaudits are deserved.
Most fans think the perquisites of the elite are deserved.
The criticism and $10,500 fine are deserved.
Australia are deserved favourites and they are motivated.
The jeers are deserved, as that was a waste.
These encouraging results are deserved of further investigation towards its use for therapeutic benefit.
Increasingly, one component of that inquiry may be whether hospital reputations are deserved or mythologized.
Sandy should be a reminder that very often in life neither triumph nor disaster are deserved.
So plaudits are deserved for the Netherlands, mooted regrets for Brazil.
Although Saracens blew them away in Watford recently, they are deserved play-off participants.
There's a presumed righteousness to it – a notion that the knocks are deserved.
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