as in unfair
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not fair or equal
They protested the inequitable treatment of employees.
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Recent Examples of inequitable
But those are downstream effects of a more fundamental issue, the inequitable way in how growth is approved.
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Baltimore Sun Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
20 May 2026
What kind of developer puts his money into an indie documentary that might give his business-as-usual peers — not to mention investors, luxury condo buyers and other beneficiaries of Miami’s prolonged but problematic and plainly inequitable real-estate boom — a conniption?
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
His rage at this inequitable country has only grown more acute as America’s racial divides widen and codify.
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Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
The former head of women’s basketball sports marketing at Adidas sued the company Wednesday, alleging she was fired in February for raising concerns about gender discrimination, inequitable resources and the treatment of female athletes.
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Mike Wilson,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Baltimore Sun Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
20 May 2026
What kind of developer puts his money into an indie documentary that might give his business-as-usual peers — not to mention investors, luxury condo buyers and other beneficiaries of Miami’s prolonged but problematic and plainly inequitable real-estate boom — a conniption?
—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
His rage at this inequitable country has only grown more acute as America’s racial divides widen and codify.
—
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
The former head of women’s basketball sports marketing at Adidas sued the company Wednesday, alleging she was fired in February for raising concerns about gender discrimination, inequitable resources and the treatment of female athletes.
—
Mike Wilson,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inequitable
Adjective
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His conviction was overturned in 2024 when his lawyers argued the first trial was unfair when the court allowed other accusers to testify.
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Hilton, running on a platform of affordability and lowering taxes, has seized on the sentiment, casting health coverage for immigrants without legal status as deeply unfair and a direct threat to the state’s ability to help citizens.
Adjective
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Such claims – though widely debunked – have long found support in communities on the margins of one of the world’s most unequal societies, where unemployment and poverty are rife.
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But cartels and dissident groups still control pockets of the country, cocaine exports are at an all-time high and Colombia remains one of the world's most economically unequal countries.
Adjective
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My arrest is unjust and arbitrary.
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Too often, caricatures are deployed to justify unfair and unjust treatment.
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“Inequitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inequitable. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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