How to Use inequality in a Sentence

inequality

noun
  • He has proposed a new system designed to remove inequalities in health care.
  • He accused the company of inequality in its hiring practices.
  • They discussed the problem of inequality between students.
  • There is this concept that the school exists to perpetuate social inequality.
    Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • But as a rapidly gentrifying city with some of the highest income inequality in the nation — and in a state with some of the laxest gun laws — gang culture has changed.
    Richard Fausset, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Lula has promised to restore government programs that combat hunger and social inequality, vowing to once again help lift millions out of poverty.
    Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Organ sales present a stark and literal embodiment of inequality.
    WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Petrzela surely understands that programs such as SoulCycle aren’t the root cause of inequality in fitness.
    Maggie Lange, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
  • What researchers have to say The weight of inequality: What's to blame?
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Consider, for instance, the issue of economic inequality.
    Vuk Vukovic, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But there are wider inequalities that gave rise to the unrest which will take years to resolve.
    Rob Picheta, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • This is, of course, one of the debates at the very heart of the discussion around how to tackle inequality and climate change.
    Cassie Werber and Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 19 Jan. 2023
  • More needs to be done to help a group that's been marginalized and had to endure systemic inequality for far too long.
    Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Around the world, inequality has spiked over the last few decades—a trend especially bad here at home.
    Sheila Warren, Fortune Crypto, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The girls, who have a stricter dress code and other more rigid requirements, begin to chafe at the inequality.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • In its 352 pages, inequality comes up about a quarter of the way through and passingly thereafter.
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • As attempts to fix the problem at the source fail, a new kind of inequality is taking hold in Indian cities.
    WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
  • So what's happened with childcare is as inequality has increased, the demand for childcare has gone up and the price of it has gone up.
    Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
  • The extreme class inequality in Latin America has a long history and is among the worst in the world, sadly.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Here are some of the top culprits driving inequality in health care—and ideas for overcoming them.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Rising income inequality, the disparity between the rich and the poor in the U.S., has been growing for decades.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Confirming that those hardest hit were at the top of the financial dogpile was the fact that wealth inequality also fell over the same time.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • As a matter of course, most conversations about the state of the world assume that inequality is getting worse.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • In the study, researchers focused on Cape Town, South Africa, but said the findings were relevant to cities around the world where high inequality also abounds.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The thing that this show helps illuminate is the idea that inequality is a big player in disasters.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • Where there is an inequality in the Trust, the Trustee must further the Grantor's intention, not the Trustee's personal biases.
    Matthew Erskine, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In a country with high levels of gender inequality, policies aimed at closing this gap could go a long way.
    Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024
  • While the fight for gender equality around the globe has made major strides, inequalities still exist in the field of journalism.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The reaction to that video spurred outrage and eventual action by the N.C.A.A. to address some of the systemic inequalities.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Federal investments in social safety nets — including child care, paid family leave and affordable housing — would be expanded to address growing inequality.
    Axios, 15 Oct. 2024

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