affirmative
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Members of the county counsel’s Affirmative Litigation and Consumer Protection Division investigated the alleged violations, then negotiated the settlement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025
Affirmative action was defined as “any measure, beyond simple termination of a discriminatory practice, adopted to correct or compensate for a past or present discrimination from recurring in the future.”
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2025
Affirmative consent requires both people to give "clear and enthusiastic communication", rather than simply the absence of a "no".
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2024
Federal policy was anything but evenhanded, as the Columbia University historian Ira Katznelson showed in his 2005 book about this era, “When Affirmative Action Was White.”
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023
I stare at a table of numbers whose columns are labeled DA DN SA SN, and have to flip back and scan for the explanation: Dissimilar Affirmative, Dissimilar Negative, Similar Affirmative, Similar Negative.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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