discrimination
Example Sentences
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Dugas spoke out against a state bill to allow discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs, according to an article in Atlanta’s Saporta Report on March 17, 2016.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
The country's biggest union, Unia, also warned the initiative would weaken labour protections, abolish rules barring discrimination between resident and foreign employees and "open the door wide to wage dumping".
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
The mere risk of discrimination was intolerable to the Furman court.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
And while labor-force participation rates vary by race and ethnicity, factors other than hiring discrimination seem to be playing a larger role in the disparities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
Some state legislators from northern Virginia’s affluent suburbs have argued that this is a form of geographic discrimination and have quixotically proposed bills to outlaw it.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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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