merit consideration

Frequency: 6.88.2 per million words

To be good enough to be thought about; more formal than 'deserve'.

considerationVERB + consideration

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merit

Examples (10)

  • Several limitations of this study merit consideration.
  • Your proposal has some interesting points that certainly merit consideration.
  • The suggestion to extend the deadline merits serious consideration.
  • The committee decided that his alternative plan merited further consideration.
  • The judge felt the new evidence was significant enough to merit consideration.
  • Don't you think her unique perspective merits consideration before we make a final decision?
  • His frivolous complaint did not merit any consideration from the board.
  • Each of these counterarguments merits careful consideration in our final report.
  • The potential environmental impact is a factor that merits immediate consideration.
  • Any idea that could improve efficiency merits consideration.