as in discriminatory
favoring, applying, or being unequal treatment of different classes of people
did away with differential pay scales for men and women doing the same work
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Recent Examples of differential
Helping harness grip in the S5 is fully independent five-link suspension at all four corners—the only member of the segment to have it—plus a sport differential and adaptive dampers.
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Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
The team hopes this work on differential privacy scaling laws will help others efficiently allocate resources to train private AI models.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
The union members, part of the Orange County Employees Association, say the city has stonewalled worker requests for recognition pay, shift differential enhancements and affordable healthcare.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2025
There are other important fluids such as those that go with the power steering, clutch and differential.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 19 June 2025
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Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
The team hopes this work on differential privacy scaling laws will help others efficiently allocate resources to train private AI models.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
The union members, part of the Orange County Employees Association, say the city has stonewalled worker requests for recognition pay, shift differential enhancements and affordable healthcare.
—Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2025
There are other important fluids such as those that go with the power steering, clutch and differential.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 19 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for differential
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Calderon allegedly told Robinson that reporting discriminatory treatment would harm his career at the department and the director refused to file a formal complaint.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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The majority, as is typical in emergency or shadow docket decisions, provided no explanation for its order overturning a district court ruling that had blocked ICE’s immigration dragnets in Los Angeles as racially discriminatory.—
Ronald Brownstein,
Mercury News,
23 Sep. 2025
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Specifically, the four customers argued that Hershey's violated Florida Deceptive And Unfair Trade Practices Act, which is designed to protect Floridians from unfair competition, deceptive acts and unethical practices.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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The complaint accuses Dignity Health and the two hospitals of violating multiple laws including California’s Emergency Services Law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, and unfair competition law.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Differential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/differential. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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