inequity
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"There's a wide inequity between women in more affluent areas and women in poorer areas."
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
The minister has highlighted the inequity that Nepal should suffer the extreme impacts of climate change when it has one of the world's lowest per-capita carbon emissions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Familiar—that is to say cliched—accounts of bad men, power games and gender inequity sometimes make “Good Company” tough going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Amid the social inequity and climate apartheid, Fox tries offering hope, preaching about empathy with lines like “sharing is stronger than hoarding.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Shouldn’t we focus the public’s attention on the so-called root causes of mass incarceration, such as educational inequity?
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
The market for earlier detection does not just reflect the inequities in American healthcare.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
In other words, AI is unable to treat evidence — or people — equally with context and knowledge of how that evidence relates to the inequities built into museums and image archives themselves.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Then-UC Riverside chancellor Kim Wilcox agreed, saying that “eliminating the tests could make inequities worse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The impact of higher gas prices fell hardest on lower-income Americans, threatening to further exacerbate inequities among income groups.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
More and more of the classes he took ad-dressed such pressing social issues as racism and world hunger and inequities in the distribution of wealth.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing inequity
President Biden's Inaugural Speech (January 2021)
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