discriminate

In some jurisdictions such as Michigan, New York City and San Francisco, it is against the law to discriminate based on height and weight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Practices that discriminate against people who are not married are increasingly out of step with how we live now,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

As a condition of being tax-exempt, nonprofit private schools must attest that they won’t discriminate based on race, color, or national or ethnic origin.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Mulan Build "sends a message: if these platforms choose to discriminate against us, we do not need to rely on them", she said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Barriers to re-entry, specifically the myriad laws that operate to discriminate against people with criminal records in every aspect of their social, economic, and political lives, must be eliminated.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The pair are part of a group of around 40 veterans who have been rejected for the payment, and say the scheme's criteria unfairly discriminates against lower-ranking veterans who felt forced out of the military.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, one of the court’s three liberal justices, said the Idaho law discriminates against people based on their sex or gender identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

Sentinel Peak, a Denver-based energy company, said the law “intentionally singles out and discriminates against” their operation in the Inglewood Field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

Evangelis resisted the conclusion that Grants Pass discriminates against people without housing.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2024

The solecisms, barbarisms, false statement, and extravagant bombast, are not felt for awhile, because the cabal and the senseless enthusiasm of the vulgar produce an intoxication which discriminates in nothing.

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

The tribunal concluded that the trust had indirectly discriminated against them.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

OpenAI will pay $3.2 million to settle claims by the Justice Department that it discriminated against U.S. workers by allegedly favoring temporary visa holders from other countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

OpenAI is settling claims by the Justice Department that it discriminated against U.S. workers when advertising jobs through its immigration sponsorship program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

They freely conceded that Tickle was discriminated against, but on the grounds of sex, rather than gender identity.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

A person shouldn’t be discriminated against because he hadn’t shaved for a picture.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

It forbids the government from "abridging" the freedom of the press - language that courts have traditionally interpreted as preventing the government from discriminating against the media based on the content of their coverage.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

District Judge Fernando M. Olguin granted the city’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleged that the city ordinance violates the intergovernmental immunity doctrine by regulating and discriminating against the federal government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

The chief justice declared that the way to end racial discrimination was to stop discriminating based on race.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Berkshire is a highly discriminating buyer of stocks and businesses at a time when there are trillions of dollars of capital in the hands of other investors who are less demanding.

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

When he was enraged by some human effort or flaw, he was able to regard himself as discriminating, fastidious, and full of nice scruples.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison