double standard
Example Sentences
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Guillermo Valdés Castellanos, a former director of Mexico’s national intelligence agency, took to the pages of Mexico’s La Aurora last week to point out the double standard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
New grads are caught in a double standard around AI.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai waved off the double standard as an “asinine observation” in a NewsNation interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Did the nation’s history and traditions set up this double standard and “allow Idaho to compel this sacrifice”? Winmill observed that Seyb had produced significant evidence to the contrary.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
There was, however, a bit of a double standard when it came to romance.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
