How to Use profiling in a Sentence

profiling

noun
  • But the sheriffs pushed back when asked if the new laws would result in racial profiling.
    — Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2025
  • French courts have found the state guilty racial profiling in identity checks in the past.
    — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 22 July 2021
  • The law led to racial profiling and a decline in the number of workers in the state.
    — Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Target is just the latest brand to come under fire for racial profiling.
    — Essence.com, 7 June 2018
  • Many in the media took it as a case of racial profiling—that Winslow was the victim.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 13 June 2019
  • Many felt the traffic stop was the result of racial profiling and shouldn't have happened.
    — Amy Forliti, ajc, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Mary Jo knows that the promise of free food will lure anyone to a dry sales pitch on profiling.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Mar. 2025
  • This is unfair to tarantulas, who are not known for their racial profiling.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 26 Mar. 2026
  • At the entrance, there is once again the hero fragrance profiling table.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Initially, there was a lot of distrust in the profiling process.
    — Maddy Cunningham, ABC News, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Well, the issue here is that there’s a racial profiling component.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The tally is said to be around $70 million—and that's just for the racial profiling case.
    — Andrew Cohen, Esquire, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The April 12 arrests sparked a firestorm over racial profiling.
    — Dianna M. Náñez, azcentral, 19 May 2018
  • Residents are frustrated by racial profiling and a lack of fresh and healthy food in these stores.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 10 May 2018
  • That has raised concerns about the potential for racial profiling.
    — New York Times, 28 May 2022
  • Ramirez said the city needs to train the new officers who fill those vacancies to avoid racial profiling.
    — David Garrick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Hawaii accused the airline of racial profiling in a video shared to his Twitter page.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The immigration raids have raised concerns about lack of due process and of racial profiling.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • This is a classic case of racial profiling in my half a million $$ neighborhood pool.
    — CBS News, 6 July 2018
  • The bill will likely lead to racial profiling in all those areas, Yoder said.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Racial profiling is one of the many claims alleged against Phoenix PD in the suit.
    — Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
  • His stop-and-frisk policy, for example, was a plain case of racial profiling.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • And there's no way this would be used to, say, create a system in which racial or ethnic profiling runs rampant.
    — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 24 Jan. 2018
  • One tool that can help with building these systems is behavioral profiling.
    — Miriam Groom, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There is no question that blood biopsies will be at the heart of the future of tracking and profiling tumours.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Efforts to language test truckers risk racial profiling.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The law is still in effect, but the Supreme Court added language that aims to prevent racial profiling.
    — The Arizona Republic, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Cavanaugh had a powerful reaction to the racial profiling charge and wanted to know more about the charge.
    — Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2020
  • This is the case in Louisiana, where efforts to rein in racial profiling have been halting at best.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Markey asks if companies will use private chats for commercial profiling.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026

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