discriminate
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Mulan Build "sends a message: if these platforms choose to discriminate against us, we do not need to rely on them", she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
“These fires did not discriminate based on party or political preference. Neither should this administration,” they added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Under the country's Sex Discrimination Act, it is illegal for providers of goods or services to discriminate against another person on the ground of a person's gender identity.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion recognizes that the Constitution “almost never permits a State to discriminate on the basis of race” and reaffirms that “strict scrutiny” applies whenever governments intentionally classify citizens by race.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
The difference between a fast fraction and a slow fraction is often less than a second, and a jockey must be able to discriminate between the two to place his horse optimally.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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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
The pair are part of a group of around 40 veterans who have been rejected for the payment, and say the scheme's criteria unfairly discriminates against lower-ranking veterans who felt forced out of the military.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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
Roberts attempted to sidestep this problem by claiming that Tennessee’s law only discriminates on the basis of age and “medical use.”
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025
Kant discriminates between the doctrine of Virtue and the doctrine of Law; he keeps them apart, but he emphasizes their connexion, and the two together make up his doctrine of Ethics.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon
The earlier ruling found that Grover had indirectly discriminated against Tickle.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Nike NKE 5.19%increase; green up pointing triangle is being asked to produce information related to allegations by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that it discriminated against white workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The complaint process is for things like My judge discriminated against me, harassed me, said something improper in the courtroom.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025
Individuals who feel they’ve been discriminated against can file complaints with the state’s Civil Rights Department or with their local school district.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025
A person shouldn’t be discriminated against because he hadn’t shaved for a picture.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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District Judge Fernando M. Olguin granted the city’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleged that the city ordinance violates the intergovernmental immunity doctrine by regulating and discriminating against the federal government.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The chief justice declared that the way to end racial discrimination was to stop discriminating based on race.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race,” he declared in a simplistic tautology, “is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Berkshire is a highly discriminating buyer of stocks and businesses at a time when there are trillions of dollars of capital in the hands of other investors who are less demanding.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
When he was enraged by some human effort or flaw, he was able to regard himself as discriminating, fastidious, and full of nice scruples.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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