as in unfair
favoring, applying, or being unequal treatment of different classes of people
a company that was fined for its discriminatory practices in the hiring of women
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Recent Examples of discriminatory
Banks also suggests setting boundaries around discriminatory comments in the workplace by calling them out and setting clear expectations around communication.
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Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Jan. 2025
Trans advocates slammed the move as openly discriminatory and vowed to challenge it in court.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
The Trump administration argues that these programs are actually discriminatory for giving preference to people based on their racial, ethnic or gender identity.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
However, they have been criticized by Trump and conservative groups as being discriminatory against other Americans and for undermining merit in hiring and promotion.
—Siddharth Cavale, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 27 Jan. 2025
Trans advocates slammed the move as openly discriminatory and vowed to challenge it in court.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
The Trump administration argues that these programs are actually discriminatory for giving preference to people based on their racial, ethnic or gender identity.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
However, they have been criticized by Trump and conservative groups as being discriminatory against other Americans and for undermining merit in hiring and promotion.
—Siddharth Cavale, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discriminatory
Adjective
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The unfair playing field must remain protected and its utility exists only for particular groups.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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The farm's current leaders have described the documentary as biased and unfair.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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If your work begins veering away from your values, that’s the space to occupy — where awareness of injustice remains acute; where ethical choices, however small, still exist; and where individual acts of conscience, even within an unjust system, can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.—
Eric Muller,
The Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Handy grew up in Kansas City, Kansas and like a lot of other teens in the late 90s and early 2000s, aspired to become the next big hip-hop artist using his lyrics to share stories of protest and resistance against an unjust system.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
25 Jan. 2025
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Noting the use of generative and discriminative AI pairs, Rus also compares a generative process - writing a book - to the traditional human way that this is done.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2024
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There's clearly larger work to be done in the diversity & inclusion space to help reduce discriminative hiring practices.—
Lindsay Kohler,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2023
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“Discriminatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discriminatory. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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