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The way a person speaks, dresses, and acts is constitutionally defined as “speech,” and the government cannot broadly and discriminately ban certain expressions.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2023
If consumption is virtuous, only those with the economic means to consume discriminately can have virtue.
From Slate ● May 3, 2013
There are titles to treasure and those to avoid among the 27 features and 11 shorts, many of which have been cherry-picked and rather less discriminately culled from other festivals, including Cannes and Berlin.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2010
The real loss lies in what America has yet to find: a way to use power discriminately and effectively.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some towns the building trades supply the recruits; in others, all trades are either discriminately or indiscriminately represented.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
