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Recent Examples of unequal For a few years, until 1968, the Legislature added both district and borough-wide seats, but since then, only borough-wide judgeships have been added, as the vastly unequal districts were just leftovers that kept hanging around. New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025 Research also finds that the racial achievement gaps documented in regular classroom learning are magnified in remote settings, likely due to unequal access to technology. Zohara Assadipour, The Conversation, 14 May 2025 American apartheid in the form of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, codified unequal application and enforcement of justice for Blacks. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2025 Power dynamics in abusive relationships are unequal and attempting to resolve issues through conversation can often provoke further conflict, especially when one partner uses communication as a means to control or manipulate the other. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unequal
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uneven
Adjective
  • Avoid wobbly or uneven fittings to keep everything centered.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2025
  • That means Juno’s radio transmissions will experience the Doppler effect, where the wavelength shifts slightly in response to Io’s uneven gravitational field.
    Robin Andrews, Wired News, 15 June 2025

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“Unequal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unequal. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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