disparate
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Instead, it integrates many disparate elements of a business’ enterprise tech stack and internal models or processes, and is able to push out decisions through read-write loops while maintaining compliance and data validation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Under fair lending laws, companies are not allowed to enact policies that would have disparate impacts on certain groups of customers, such as people of a particular race or gender.
From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026
Gen. Rob Bonta opened a civil rights investigation last month into the county’s response to the Eaton fire in Altadena, looking at disparate effects based on race, age and disability.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026
Jarvis said volunteers often would not meet again until a real life callout "so it is bringing all of these people from very disparate backgrounds together to achieve something really quite amazing".
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
The New York Times said: G. M. Pennington faced a daunting task in tying together the dozens of disparate threads in the Bloodfall series to bring things to a satisfying conclusion.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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