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The law lets the President impose tariffs up to 50% on countries that discriminate against “commerce of the United States, directly or indirectly” in relation to foreign countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 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

“What has been shared does not reflect the truth, and it’s never been in my character to discriminate against anybody’s skin color,” Keyser said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Stagehand would carry the same colors as his nearly identical full brother, Sceneshifter, but to enable the race caller to discriminate between them, Stagehand’s jockey was to wear a white cap, Sceneshifter’s a red one.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Roberts attempted to sidestep this problem by claiming that Tennessee’s law only discriminates on the basis of age and “medical use.”

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025

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

Later we shall have to show upon what grounds the community discriminates between acceptable and reprehensible facts, calling the former good and the latter bad.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

He added that the defender had acted "unreasonably" in leaving it until 5 August to accept it had discriminated against Simon.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

At the time, Snyder wrote she was “constrained” to block the mask ban because of a last-minute carve-out exempting state police, finding it discriminated against the federal government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

I put out my hand to feel the dark mass before me: I discriminated the rough stones of a low wall—above it, something like palisades, and within, a high and prickly hedge.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It is language that courts have long interpreted as preventing the government from discriminating against the media based on the content of their coverage.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“Investors are being much more discriminating as to where they put their money than they would in a market where there’s a lot of liquidity,” the EQT Group chair said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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

These headwinds could cut the chip rally short—making it all the more important for investors to be discriminating in their stock-picking.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

“Are you discriminating against snakes and turtles? Do they not need loving, caring forever homes?”

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty