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discriminate

[dih-skrim-uh-nayt, dih-skrim-uh-nit] / dɪˈskrɪm əˌneɪt, dɪˈskrɪm ə nɪt /




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That law allows the president to tax countries that discriminate against U.S. companies—but it has never been used to justify tariffs and could attract legal challenges, experts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

He added the condition "doesn't discriminate", and learning children could also be affected spurred him on to share his story.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

As a condition of being tax-exempt, nonprofit private schools must attest that they won’t discriminate based on race, color, or national or ethnic origin.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

If there was a minor traffic infraction or other probable cause to make a stop, proving their motive requires them to confess to acting with intent to discriminate, Willis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Decades of cognitive bias research demonstrates that both unconscious and conscious biases lead to discriminatory actions, even when an individual does not want to discriminate.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Snyder struck it down on Feb. 9, writing that she was “constrained” to do so because the exemption of state police “unlawfully discriminates against federal officers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the court’s three liberal justices, said the Idaho law discriminates against people based on their sex or gender identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

Papers issued as part of the case claim her decision discriminates against Kneecap on grounds of religious belief or political opinion, as well as racial grounds of nationality and ethnic origin.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024

Evangelis resisted the conclusion that Grants Pass discriminates against people without housing.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2024

He discriminates, with the art of a true critic, between objective representations of human life and subjective protests against human limitations, errors, miseries, and sins.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

"No one should be discriminated against because of who they are or who they love," he said on his website, adding: "I am committed to fighting for the dignity and equality of all Americans."

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

In June, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Tawa Supermarket Inc., alleging the company “violated federal law when it fired and otherwise discriminated against non-Chinese workers based on their national origin.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Today’s report provides irrefutable evidence that the nation’s largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses,” Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

OpenAI is settling claims by the Justice Department that it discriminated against U.S. workers when advertising jobs through its immigration sponsorship program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

I put out my hand to feel the dark mass before me: I discriminated the rough stones of a low wall—above it, something like palisades, and within, a high and prickly hedge.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

The court’s six conservatives, all of whom were raised Catholic, leaned in favor of ruling the state was discriminating based on religion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

“You’ve seen market participants that are discriminating between the kinds of investments they want to make,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

This lack of access was "discriminating against people with obesity", he added.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Is the iPhone Duo discriminating against left-handed users?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The man seemed to go out of his way to use long words like discriminating and unadulterated.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl


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