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'deserve' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone or something is worthy or entitled to a certain treatment, attitude, privilege, reward, etc. Example sentence: She worked hard all year and she deserves a chance to prove herself.
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deserve
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To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
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"Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.
"This woman is nothing more than an attention seeker who does not deserve to be a celebrity".
She does not deserve it.
Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
"I want to be worthy of Ukrainians who have proved to be a very strong nation that deserve a better future in Europe".
There could be no arguing with the result, nor with the fact that Ipswich deserve praise for making Norwich work so hard for it.
Another interviewee meanwhile says: "We give out awards to black people when they deserve them, just like any other group".
Neither side did enough to deserve all three points but Saints continue their quest for a European spot.
"If we don't do our job we deserve to go down.
If you want to stand out from the crowd and prove that you deserve that promotion/pay rise/investment then you have to stand up for yourself so that you can be heard over the noise.
This civic-mindedness has never been allowed to recover, due in large part to the loyalist paramilitaries who demonstrated the other night in east Belfast that they are not yet ready to allow their communities the emancipation they truly deserve.
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