unlevel

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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

Modest changes could greatly reduce the vulnerability to competition on an unlevel playing field.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 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 goal is towards Bohemia, all this while; and his Majesty, had he liked the mountain-passes, and unlevel ways of the Giant Mountains, might have found a shorter road and a much more picturesque one.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas