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
That labor sustains an inequitable tech economy in which a handful of companies, including Meta, Google and Amazon, rake in profit and enrich their shareholders.
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Collective stories and testimonies about police violence represent powerful resistance strategies against inequitable policing and racist socioeconomic and political regimes.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Women in particular carry the brunt of it, juggling inequitable pay, workplace sexism, and a political environment that treats their rights like bargaining chips.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
A lot of us might want to judge students on the merits of their participation in class, but we’ve been discouraged from doing so out of fear that such evaluations will be deemed arbitrary and inequitable—and that students and their parents might complain.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2025
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Collective stories and testimonies about police violence represent powerful resistance strategies against inequitable policing and racist socioeconomic and political regimes.
—Lashawn Harris
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Women in particular carry the brunt of it, juggling inequitable pay, workplace sexism, and a political environment that treats their rights like bargaining chips.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
A lot of us might want to judge students on the merits of their participation in class, but we’ve been discouraged from doing so out of fear that such evaluations will be deemed arbitrary and inequitable—and that students and their parents might complain.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inequitable
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Two animal rights groups had sued C5 Rodeo and the Padres, alleging unfair business practices.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Jan. 2026
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For years, allegations have swirled that Kim manipulated stocks between 2010 and 2012 related to Korean BMW dealership Deutsch Motors, earning unfair profits.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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Balances are highly unequal; many Australian workers, especially women, reach retirement without enough savings.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Financial entanglements, unpaid debts or unequal exchanges come into focus.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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Hinton’s work shows how institutions—from urban police to public housing and segregated, underfunded schools—have, through their practices, entrenched a racially unjust status quo.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Jan. 2026
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, an 8-year-old in West Baltimore at the time of the murder, offers piercing commentary on the impact of both the initial crime and the succeeding one, the grievously unjust trial that put three kids in the penitentiary.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Inequitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inequitable. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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