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been deserving
verb
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
synonyms
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For the amount of work they've put in, they've been deserving of the gold a long time".
When her father died her mother said, "There's a shock coming to you, my girl, & you've been deserving it for long enough".
On my first morning, three requests were refused for no reason I could understand, except, in Dario's eyes, the customers hadn't been deserving.
I felt all this guilt and I had to find something a character had done that had been deserving of guilt.
Having said all of this, each nominee these past two years in top categories have been deserving.
Tom Hanks, star of Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy" was expected to walk off with this award — and he would have been deserving of the win in any other season.
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AZ are deserving champions.
Both would be deserving winners.
The opposition, too, is deserving of recognition.
The question is whether they were deserving".
Mark Warburton is deserving of a fresh narrative.
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