discriminate

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Unlike congressional tariffs under World Trade Organization rules, International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs discriminate from country to country – even on the same products.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026

The idea is that, for some patients, the new medicines could improve the effects of the weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, which don’t discriminate between fat and muscle.

From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026

"This is an epidemic that does not discriminate," said Refuge's chair Hettie Barkworth-Nanton.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Elizabeth Price Foley and Jason Torchinsky’s op-ed, on the unconstitutionality of disparate-impact theory, left me with no such “impression that any use of statistics to prove intent to discriminate is illegal.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

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