How to Use inequitable in a Sentence

inequitable

adjective
  • They protested the inequitable treatment of employees.
  • Q: In what ways is the current food system in San Diego inequitable?
    Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
  • An inequitable distribution of wealth is seen as worrisome.
    Lu Wang, Bloomberg.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • The two-tier system of state and private providers is inequitable, unfair, and inadequate to address the current needs.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 July 2017
  • Inequitable salaries among both film and television actors have been a hot topic in recent years, though the focus has generally been on gender rather than race.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 7 July 2017
  • The way Alabama funds its schools is both inadequate and inequitable according to a study of the state's school finance system.
    Trisha Powell Crain, AL.com, 21 June 2017
  • The House bill gradually erased this inequitable reimbursement scheme.
    Doug Badger, National Review, 28 July 2017
  • Lawmakers have tried unsuccessfully for years to replace a school funding system that's widely considered the most inequitable in the country.
    Suzanne Baker, Naperville Sun, 29 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • However, ditching inequitable regulations that create two- and three-tier hunting crowds would go a long way toward repairing what has become a recreation disaster.
    John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Third, the piece fails to consider that Illinois had been dead last in the country in state funding for public schools and employed the nation’s most inequitable education funding formula.
    WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So would improvements to the city’s crumbling sidewalks, inequitable tree canopy and deep deficiency of public bathrooms.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024

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