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The letter also cites a 2023 Fox News report in which Chemerinsky described what he called “unstated affirmative action.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

There have been hunger strikes demanding farmers' rights, affirmative action, environmental protections, anti-corruption laws and the repeal of controversial security legislation.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

India’s long-running debate about affirmative action has a new point of comparison: China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

As to those analogues: Jackson ridiculed Alito’s refusal to acknowledge that they show how “states routinely required affirmative consent for armed carry onto private property” at the founding.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Negative sentences are easy when the reader already has an affirmative in mind or can create one on short notice; all he has to do is pin a “false” tag onto it.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Most soiree veterans are accustomed to getting an influx of “yes” confirmations not long after the invites go out and another wave of affirmatives days before the party starts.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2023

For the kids in the working-class families, the ratio was twelve affirmatives to seven prohibitions, and in the welfare families it was five affirmatives to eleven prohibitions.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015

For the past year the British working classes have grown increasingly aware that they were getting two negatives where they wanted two affirmatives.

From Time Magazine Archive

None the less the press busied itself with the affirmatives of all these denials for many days.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Retrieval Squad roared military-type affirmatives, coaxing as many metallic noises from their weapons as possible.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer