disparate

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They’ll buy up stock in the initial, single company, anticipating the spinoff will unlock value in what will become disparate and separately traded entities.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Under fair lending laws, companies are not allowed to enact policies that would have disparate impacts on certain groups of customers, such as people of a particular race or gender.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Gen. Rob Bonta opened a civil rights investigation last month into the county’s response to the Eaton fire in Altadena, looking at disparate effects based on race, age and disability.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

“Seriously Silly” provides the first substantial account of Jones’s disparate and lesser-known pursuits: co-founding a brewery, writing a collection of children’s stories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my book’s subject.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond