discrimination
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A score of 0.5 indicates performance equivalent to chance, while 1.0 represents perfect discrimination.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Representatives for Il Fornaio denied the allegations and said in court documents there was “no companywide pattern or practice of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Even though the community suffers from extensive poverty due in part to discrimination and the few resources refugees from a war-torn country are able to marshal, it has also produced a large number of entrepreneurs.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
The tribunal dismissed her other claims of discrimination and victimisation.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
She thought she had raised him as a son, as she had raised Rebeca, with no privileges or discrimination.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The #MeToo movement in 2017 increased awareness of the subtle - and the not so subtle - discriminations women face at work.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2024
Italy’s watchdog added that the measures imposed aimed at avoiding discriminations and granting efficiency to any potential new players in the sector.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021
However, as of mid-August, only 28% of young Black New York City residents are vaccinated, often rooted in distrust of government or current discriminations.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Our legal system requires these fine discriminations in order to administer whatever passes for justice these days, and Wilson’s own godfather, Daryle Hallums, asked the black community to “stand down” while the crime is investigated.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2018
These classifiers in Klamath are further discriminated as to form; but these form discriminations are the homologues of attitude discriminations in the Ponka, for the form determines the attitude.
From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing discrimination
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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