as in unfair
favoring, applying, or being unequal treatment of different classes of people
a company that was fined for its discriminatory practices in the hiring of women
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Recent Examples of discriminatory
Without the ability to review potentially discriminatory new voting laws from going into effect, the Justice Department or private parties such as legal advocacy groups must now rely on trying to litigate them after they've been passed.
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Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
The full 4th Circuit in 2024 had struck down West Virginia’s law as discriminatory, but the Supreme Court last year directed it to reconsider this case and a separate one involving North Carolina, in light of its decision in the Tennessee case.
—Reuters 21 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
Not for racial, ethnic, and gender minority Americans who are excluded from NIH research via discriminatory grant screening processes.
—Jenna Norton, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
Yolo County officials have identified and modified more than 1,100 historic property records containing discriminatory covenants, some dating back more than a century.
—Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 8 Mar. 2026
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Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
The full 4th Circuit in 2024 had struck down West Virginia’s law as discriminatory, but the Supreme Court last year directed it to reconsider this case and a separate one involving North Carolina, in light of its decision in the Tennessee case.
—Reuters 21 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
Not for racial, ethnic, and gender minority Americans who are excluded from NIH research via discriminatory grant screening processes.
—Jenna Norton, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
Yolo County officials have identified and modified more than 1,100 historic property records containing discriminatory covenants, some dating back more than a century.
—Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 8 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discriminatory
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The number of debt collection reports — consumer complaints against unfair collection practices — filed to government agencies has surged in the past two years in the D-FW area, according to Federal Trade Commission statistics.—
William Tong,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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These wagers seem unfair and dangerous, and bets related to the Iran war — which traded over $675 million on Polymarket — feel morbid and sordid.—
Max Raskin,
Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2026
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To prevent this consequence, local and state level policy makers must empower tenants to fight against unjust evictions and battle unjust rent raises through legislatures.—
Chloe Wong,
Hartford Courant,
16 Mar. 2026
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Immigrant-rights advocates argued the repeal of the special protection would be cruel and unjust to migrants who have established lives and careers in this country.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Noting the use of generative and discriminative AI pairs, Rus also compares a generative process - writing a book - to the traditional human way that this is done.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2024
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In 2019, the Chinese government issued a directive banning a wide range of discriminative measures against women in the hiring process, including asking women about their marital and childbearing status.—
Jessie Yeung and Nectar Gan,
CNN,
5 June 2021
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“Discriminatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discriminatory. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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