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
Disproportionate Impact on the Most Vulnerable: The health impacts of climate change are deeply inequitable.
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Bill Frist, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Factors such as chronic disease, poor diet and inequitable access to preventive care contribute to this disparity.
—Trisha Swift, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
In cities around the country, from Oregon to Iowa, activists are working to remove subjective noise codes in favor of more measurable options that could help curb inequitable and biased enforcement.
—Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The organization said students also face financial hurdles, inequitable access to resources, bias and difficulty finding employment after graduating.
—Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Bill Frist, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Factors such as chronic disease, poor diet and inequitable access to preventive care contribute to this disparity.
—Trisha Swift, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
In cities around the country, from Oregon to Iowa, activists are working to remove subjective noise codes in favor of more measurable options that could help curb inequitable and biased enforcement.
—Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
The organization said students also face financial hurdles, inequitable access to resources, bias and difficulty finding employment after graduating.
—Molly Gibbs, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for inequitable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inequitable
Adjective
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Critics argue that data does not show transgender athletes have any advantage and that this pushback is unfair to the transgender community.—
Kayla Gaskins,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2025
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Adding the Cardinals star to a Dodgers roster that's already the clear top unit in the league would be borderline unfair.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But there may be more at play than just a (potentially) unequal allotment of resources.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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These are, of course, unequal tragedies, if the latter can even be called a tragedy.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
The New Yorker,
2 Feb. 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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“Inequitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inequitable. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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