How to Use inequitable in a Sentence

inequitable

adjective
  • They protested the inequitable treatment of employees.
  • Finally, virtual pods remove many of the barriers that make podding inequitable.
    Brian Platzer, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Paying the full tax amount would create an economic hardship, or would be unfair and inequitable because of exceptional circumstances.
    Julian Kheel, CNN Underscored, 9 July 2020
  • Portland’s at-large, citywide elections are innately inequitable and lead to a lack of representation on City Council.
    oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The case ended up in front of the state Supreme Court, which agreed Kentucky's K-12 school system was inequitable and inadequate.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The players' other claims of inequitable treatment, including their disputes over access to training equipment and medical staffing, will be heard in trial on June 16.
    Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 5 May 2020
  • The weaker the media, the more inequitable a city is allowed to be.
    Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • This has been due to the inequitable distribution of vaccines around the world.
    Shabir A. Madhi, Quartz, 29 June 2021
  • The program, which will pay trainees a stipend, aims to improve inequitable health outcomes.
    Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2023
  • On the contrary, they were designed to be inequitable, to have winners and losers, to leverage the work of the masses for the advantage of the few.
    Isis Dallis, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The way that streaming revenue is divvied up is is highly inequitable.
    Chuck Arnold, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That leaves the city in the worst of all worlds: The existing zoning, which the report calls inequitable, doesn’t change, and little new housing is added.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This is largely due to the inequitable distribution of vaccines from the start.
    Oumar Seydi, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The officials blamed the inequitable rollout of vaccines, in part, on wealthy countries.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2022
  • But that doesn’t solve inequitable development in the city of Cleveland.
    Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Boosters have long been held up as a symbol of inequitable access to vaccines.
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • However, the pain has not been felt evenly across our nation and the recovery has been inequitable.
    CBS News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Of course, none of this will be advantageous if access is inequitable.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
  • The amount of time away from campus was substantially inequitable.
    Karen Weaver, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Although the United States spends the most on healthcare, access to services is widely inequitable.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Based on a 2019 United Nations report, Brazil is one of the most socially inequitable nations on earth.
    Gabriel Leão, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The economy is inequitable and leading to more unrest and hardship for millions.
    Alison Omens, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The inequitable distribution of vaccines is not just a moral outrage.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021
  • All told, a hard and accurate picture was painted of how broken and inequitable our systems are.
    John Wilgers, Star Tribune, 29 Dec. 2020
  • But if their hiring practices are inequitable, then your person-first message doesn't fit their brand essence and vice versa.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Researchers also found there were drawbacks for white children from this inequitable care.
    Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Concerns over inequitable access to the exam schools have persisted for decades.
    BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Black, Indigenous and people of color cannot change this inequitable climate without the help of allies.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2021
  • The draft plan highlighted by a county spokesperson mentions inequitable access to adequate cooling several times.
    Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 3 July 2024
  • The decades that followed saw diminishing investment in public pools and more emphasis on building private facilities, leading to inequitable access to the physical and mental benefits of swimming.
    Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2024

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