Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Mack, Valentine’s cousin, said Valentine’s providers being largely Black did not sway her view that they could have discriminated against her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
But it wouldn’t be the first time Wells Fargo was found to have discriminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023
And his first words quoted in that paper about those charges were, appropriately enough: "They are absolutely ridiculous... We never have discriminated and we never would."
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2020
Employers who were found to have discriminated against an employee were required to rehire him, or to make amends, through “affirmative action.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018
"The two I do not choose will not feel that I have discriminated against them?"
From The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London
