How to Use inequity in a Sentence

inequity

noun
  • That is how inequities get locked in.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Moskowitz framed her plans as a way to address inequities.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Can anything be done about this inequity?
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • This led to complaints of inequities.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
  • My first concrete lessons in food inequity came from eleven- and twelve-year-olds.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And by the inequity in which the death penalty is handed down.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The biggest downside seems to be the inequity about what the artist earns from his work.
    — Roy Trakin, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The inequity sparked a firestorm on social media.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The pay inequity is perhaps nowhere more visible than in the c-suite.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2022
  • This study shows the real world results of inequity and the cost of not rooting it out.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 June 2021
  • And the inequity is even worse for young families just starting out.
    — Joseph Gerics, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Hi readers, This week, vaccine inequity took a turn for the worse.
    — Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
  • But the problem revealed by the riots isn’t just about inequity.
    — Washington Post, 19 July 2021
  • The pandemic, for its part, shone a bright light on healthcare inequity.
    — Adnan Iqbal, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • As the days mount and tension builds, inequities are exposed as often as breaks in the case.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The inequity is only expected to widen this year.
    — Laura Bassett, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In the face of years of inequity, the company called on other theaters to do the same.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Toler and her neighbors said that the same inequity is playing out with the vaccine.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Toler and her neighbors said that the same inequity is playing out with the vaccine.
    — April Dembosky Kqed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Such inequities mean women of color have fewer resources to draw on when loan bills come due.
    — Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • And because of the power dynamics based on race, there is an inequity.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But money isn’t the only inequity the soccer team is fighting for.
    — Reina Kempt, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The high mortality rate highlights the inequity of a life-or-death sport.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • The current Steelers haven’t had time to build inequity with Browns fans.
    — cleveland, 9 Jan. 2023
  • As on other surfaces, gender inequity has long prevailed on the world’s ice tracks.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Mina resents when Sade harps on the inequities of their childhoods.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • That might not have ever happened if not for the inequities that blew up in the tournament five years ago.
    — Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The resistance against racial inequity doesn’t start after a trigger has been pulled.
    — Tamika D. Mallory, Essence, 13 May 2021
  • There's an inherent inequity there.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • This has been a hidden inequity for as long as the pension system existed.
    — John Cullerton, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026

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