discriminate
Example Sentences
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Last month the Justice Department filed suit against Harvard University, alleging that it was withholding information necessary for the government to determine whether its admission process unlawfully discriminated.
JPMorgan has said it doesn’t discriminate based on politics and supports regulatory changes around banks firing clients.
The panel will also examine whether he discriminated unfairly by "dispensing special favours or privileges".
From BBC
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
Cholera didn’t discriminate, killing adults and children in the south and the north.
From Literature
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