as in discriminatory
favoring, applying, or being unequal treatment of different classes of people
are you guilty of discriminational behavior toward people unlike yourself?
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Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Tuesday night allowed Alabama to use in November’s elections a new map for congressional districts that a lower federal court ruled was discriminatory to Black voters.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
3 June 2026 -
But the Supreme Court said the panel wrongly interpreted Alabama’s disagreement with the lower court’s initial ruling against the map as proof of discriminatory intent.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
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Marlowe earned the right — even in an increasingly unfair business — to exit on his terms.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
11 June 2026
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France having him and Saliba is frankly unfair.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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“Discriminational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discriminational. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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