discrimination
Example Sentences
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Her organization supports adding an individual’s caregiver status to the state’s employment discrimination provision.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026
“Let’s stop all the discrimination against street vendors... Enough!” she said in Spanish while tears trickled down her face outside City Hall.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2026
They did not ask the court to find that the entire system of separate boys’ and girls’ sports was unlawful discrimination.
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2026
Six years ago, the transgender-rights movement won a landmark victory when the high court ruled that the Civil Rights Act’s prohibition on sex discrimination in the workplace extends to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
A magna cum laude graduate, she majored in political science in college and was deeply involved in campus social affairs, especially in anti- discrimination and anti-nuclear issues.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing discrimination
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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"On Women's Right to Vote" by Susan B. Anthony
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