segregative

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Adjective
  • His rage at this inequitable country has only grown more acute as America’s racial divides widen and codify.
    Los Angeles Times, 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
Adjective
  • The Cubs sued Wrigley View Rooftop and Dunican in 2024 for misappropriating the team’s property rights and unjust enrichment.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 4 May 2026
  • As its membership has grown much more international, there have been increasing calls for an overhaul to the international film category, which had been continually criticized as unjust, outdated and subject to political interference.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • Alongside legal segregation, separate and unequal categories emerged for Black music.
    A.D. Carson, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
  • Power Four schools may all fall under the same sharing cap, but their pockets grow with NIL in unequal sizes.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • And disparities between a storm's classification, for example, and the actual damage on the ground could lead to unfair situations, disaster experts warn.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 7 May 2026
  • How Florida’s new voting maps favor white voters Voting rights groups have criticized the new Florida maps as giving an unfair advantage to the GOP and the white communities that make up the majority of the party’s voter base.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • But no other Republican has made any serious move toward the job, or toward building the kind of partisan coalition Vance holds together.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The emerging cross-partisan consensus on plastics offers a rare opportunity to push for a real policy agenda.
    Justin Zorn, STAT, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • And in 2021 the Court required Section 2 plaintiffs challenging burdens on casting ballots to focus on discriminatory intent rather than discriminatory effect, with the result that no Section 2 challenge since then has succeeded.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • Overall, Niemeyer said the ruling establishes that no practice of law should be discriminatory for or against one group of people.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • Weinstein’s earlier rape conviction in New York was overturned by the state’s highest court on the grounds that prosecutors were allowed to introduce prejudicial testimony from women who claimed they were assaulted, but whose allegations were not charged.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • She is made superior simply by being a researcher, impartial observer, who must see without the prejudicial lens of her own culture and experience.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
  • Bias asks whether the system perpetuates, amplifies, or introduces systematic disadvantage, including through feedback loops where biased outputs reinforce biased inputs.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 May 2026
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“Segregative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregative. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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