How to Use inequitable in a Sentence

inequitable

adjective
  • They protested the inequitable treatment of employees.
  • The weaker the media, the more inequitable a city is allowed to be.
    Washington Post, 21 May 2021
  • Q: In what ways is the current food system in San Diego inequitable?
    Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
  • 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
  • Yet the corridor runs right through the country’s most restive—and inequitable—areas.
    The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Far from being inequitable, Ward summed up, the income tax was a monument to fairness.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Fixing inequitable school tax laws is a necessary first step.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 14 May 2017
  • America has always been an inequitable place, of course.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019
  • Although the United States spends the most on healthcare, access to services is widely inequitable.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • And one place to start is on the hiring practices that result in racially inequitable outcomes for people of color.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2019
  • There is a reason that Romans 13:1 has been the Bible verse of choice for demagogues and upholders of inequitable systems.
    Jonathan L. Walton, Time, 22 June 2018
  • 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
  • The moment highlighted concerns by some Democrats that Harris was a product of an inequitable criminal justice system.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 20 July 2024

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