Example Sentences

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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

Strange to say, however, they have discriminated against the one kind of knowledge that the aforementioned specific aims emphasize as especially desirable.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by McMurry, Frank M. (Frank Morton)