unlevel

Example Sentences

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Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated that partners’ failure to address forced labor imports creates an unlevel playing field.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

But copyright law and the inattention and lack of technological knowledge on the federal bench have combined to create an unlevel playing field on which small-time infringers or innocent targets can get trampled.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2023

“It just seems like there’s a really unlevel playing field in the market,” State Senator Phil King said in a hearing this year.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

But manufacturers criticized these laws as creating an unlevel playing field: to them, any state limit on child labor would disadvantage them relative to competitors in states without such limits.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

The would-be builders of the new heaven and the new earth can ill afford to lay the cornerstone of their edifice on such an unsafe and unlevel ground.

From Japan and the California Problem by Iyenaga, Toyokichi