as in unfair
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not fair or equal
They protested the inequitable treatment of employees.
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Recent Examples of inequitable
But those are downstream effects of a more fundamental issue, the inequitable way in how growth is approved.
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Baltimore Sun Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
20 May 2026
What kind of developer puts his money into an indie documentary that might give his business-as-usual peers — not to mention investors, luxury condo buyers and other beneficiaries of Miami’s prolonged but problematic and plainly inequitable real-estate boom — a conniption?
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Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
His rage at this inequitable country has only grown more acute as America’s racial divides widen and codify.
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Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
The former head of women’s basketball sports marketing at Adidas sued the company Wednesday, alleging she was fired in February for raising concerns about gender discrimination, inequitable resources and the treatment of female athletes.
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Mike Wilson,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Baltimore Sun Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
20 May 2026
What kind of developer puts his money into an indie documentary that might give his business-as-usual peers — not to mention investors, luxury condo buyers and other beneficiaries of Miami’s prolonged but problematic and plainly inequitable real-estate boom — a conniption?
—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
18 May 2026
His rage at this inequitable country has only grown more acute as America’s racial divides widen and codify.
—
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
The former head of women’s basketball sports marketing at Adidas sued the company Wednesday, alleging she was fired in February for raising concerns about gender discrimination, inequitable resources and the treatment of female athletes.
—
Mike Wilson,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inequitable
Adjective
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And it all might be taken away by absurd, unfair officiating.
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Mora has accused the company of unfair and fraudulent business practices.
Adjective
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Such claims – though widely debunked – have long found support in communities on the margins of one of the world’s most unequal societies, where unemployment and poverty are rife.
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But cartels and dissident groups still control pockets of the country, cocaine exports are at an all-time high and Colombia remains one of the world's most economically unequal countries.
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That doesn’t mean Balogun didn’t think the red card was unjust.
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The laws might prevent what some people believe is morally right, or command – in the name of protecting others’ rights or the common good – what others regard as unjust or unholy.
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