segregative

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregative
Adjective
  • During both virtual events, health care advocates criticized the program’s inequitable access, but state officials did not engage with the speakers.
    Margaret Coker, ProPublica, 14 May 2025
  • The result is an inequitable cycle where wealth begets opportunity and opportunity begets more wealth — leaving others trapped in debt and diminished prospects.
    Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Independent jurors can blunt the force of immoral laws and arbitrary prosecutions by refusing to subject their neighbors to unjust laws or overtly cruel punishment.
    Mike Fox, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • About 80 percent of all respondents—including half of those who are U.S. citizens—called Trump's decision to end TPS unjust.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • According to the World Bank, South Africa remains the world's most unequal country.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 12 May 2025
  • Power dynamics in abusive relationships are unequal and attempting to resolve issues through conversation can often provoke further conflict, especially when one partner uses communication as a means to control or manipulate the other.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • But critics argue that no taxes on tips is a costly, unfair tax break that will benefit few lower-income Americans.
    Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 18 May 2025
  • President Trump understands that, when used wisely, tariffs can level the playing field, protect American industries from unfair competition, incentivize U.S. manufacturing, and ultimately strengthen our national security.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • According to data intelligence firm Morning Consult, DEI is one of the hot-button issues that produces the widest partisan gaps in what Americans want brands to talk about.
    Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 19 May 2025
  • Trump’s messianic appeal may seem like a twenty-first-century creation, a product of partisan rage, epistemic drift, and American-style evangelicalism.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • But the Justice Department also argued that the IRS lacked the authority to revoke or deny the schools’ exemptions on the basis that their discriminatory policies contradicted public policy.
    Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • From their questioning of lawyers arguing on either side of the case, the majority of justices appeared open to the idea that excluding religious institutions from Oklahoma’s charter school system is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
    Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Adjective
  • But in 2020, North Carolina appellate courts ruled that the exclusion of those statements, as well as other evidentiary issues, were prejudicial and prevented Molly and Tom from receiving an effective defense.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • In some cases, no one individual error is prejudicial enough to warrant relief, but when there are a number of constitutional or statutory violations, the court will conclude that the errors, cumulatively, undermine confidence in the conviction and warrant relief.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • If child custody is a factor, the child’s testimony is parsed under the light of a biased adult who either coached the child, or negatively influenced the child by asking leading questions, so as to distort the child’s memory and reporting.
    Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA WRITING ON THE WALL – NPR CEO claps back at notion outlet is biased after Trump slashes taxpayer funds.
    , FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
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“Segregative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregative. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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