inequity
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We can analyze the nature of financial and emotional inequity all day, but it’s time to honor both parties and take action.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The minister has highlighted the inequity that Nepal should suffer the extreme impacts of climate change when it has one of the world's lowest per-capita carbon emissions.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Familiar—that is to say cliched—accounts of bad men, power games and gender inequity sometimes make “Good Company” tough going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A new law, which came into force in December, aims to correct that historical inequity, by allowing not just the children of Canadians to claim citizenship, but anyone who can prove an ancestral tie.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain’s job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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The bill called for state agencies to address “the inequities regarding access to, and control over, water caused by state-sanctioned acts of termination, removal, and assimilation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The market for earlier detection does not just reflect the inequities in American healthcare.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
In other words, AI is unable to treat evidence — or people — equally with context and knowledge of how that evidence relates to the inequities built into museums and image archives themselves.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
In the words of one 1930s journalist quoted by Mr. Dillon, the glaring inequities of Shanghai in the 19th and early 20th centuries made it “a complete political ulcer on the face of China.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
More and more of the classes he took ad-dressed such pressing social issues as racism and world hunger and inequities in the distribution of wealth.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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President Biden's Inaugural Speech (January 2021)
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