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As the expectations around love are ratcheted up, so is the potential for feeling hate when love feels unreturned or undeserved or otherwise thwarted.
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Dr. Gary McClain, TIME, 15 July 2024
And some people will hate me and think my success is undeserved.
—Outside Online, 10 July 2024
Pit bulls already have an undeserved bad reputation.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
Odom’s performance, along with that of his co-star Kara Young, rescued this very fine play from undeserved obscurity.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 13 June 2024
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Dr. Gary McClain, TIME, 15 July 2024
And some people will hate me and think my success is undeserved.
—Outside Online, 10 July 2024
Pit bulls already have an undeserved bad reputation.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
Odom’s performance, along with that of his co-star Kara Young, rescued this very fine play from undeserved obscurity.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 13 June 2024
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The company is facing a litany of unfair labor practice allegations from the union and from labor board officials.Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
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Hearing her speak about her ambition and the unfair expectations placed on women has empowered so many women of different colors, of different cultures.Morgan Smith,Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
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Stakeholders want to create jobs without putting an undue burden on the state’s finances.Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Oct. 2024
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Footnotes *To avoid giving prolific pollsters undue influence, the calculations in this article downweight polls from pollsters that conduct a lot of polls.Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2024
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In two cases, judges ruled that Koester made unjustified arrests.Sarah Metz, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
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The assumption was that all advisors deliver the same returns, which made my higher fee seem unjustified.James Brewer, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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Because of that unjust reputation, some studies have found that black cats aren't adopted as quickly as cats of other colors.Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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These circumstances can lead to an unequal and unjust outcome for many students.Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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But such intercommunal attacks, however vicious and unmerited, are not the cause of the M23 rebellion but a response to it: many Congolese of other ethnicities automatically assume local Tutsis support the rebel group and have therefore lashed out against them.Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
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This does not excuse the subsequent Republican descent into conspiracy-theory madness and all that has followed from that, but the kernel of mistrust at the center of that paranoiac outlook is not entirely unmerited.Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 26 May 2021
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Partly as a result of this, and partly because of its emotionally potent subject matter, the field is extremely susceptible to unwarranted anthropomorphic interpretations.Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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This welcome change should reduce unwarranted penalty assessments since taxpayers will have the opportunity to explain their situation prior to the time IRS assesses a penalty.Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D., Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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