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Example sentences for: comeuppance
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He might be seen to have got his final comeuppance at the hands of one correspondent, who wrote at length as follows about the etymology of Cambridge:
Like NYU's list, Slate 'slist has only two discernible effects: It validates already popular opinions (Did you already think Reich's book deserved a comeuppance?
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.
Story 1 is about the excesses of the leveraged buyout era--exemplified by the RJR Nabisco merger--and the comeuppance of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which saddled the merged firm with unbearable debt.
But he stretched too far, in his price tag and his claims, and now Kloss' Cambridge has delivered his comeuppance.