Sample Sentences for
discriminate
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discriminate as in:  suffered discrimination

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Some employers still discriminate against older workers when hiring.
discriminate = treat unfairly
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    It is wrong to discriminate against people because of their race.
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    We do not discriminate based on race, nationality, social status, age, gender, religion, or sexual preference.
    discriminate = unfairly treat of different groups of people differently
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    It wasn't long ago that our society accepted discrimination against gay people.
    discrimination = unfair treatment
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    In the Northern, Eastern and Western states, African Americans often faced discrimination, but it was not as extreme and pervasive as in the South.  (source)
    discrimination = unfair treatment due to race
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Lady Artemis does not discriminate by birth.  (source)
    discriminate = unfairly treat people differently
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    A lot of our community members felt harassed, discriminated against.  (source)
    discriminated = unfairly treated differently
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    This is discriminatory and highly prejudicial to my client.†  (source)
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    I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations.†  (source)
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    I have no doubt that time discriminates between the good and the bad; and when at last I shall plant, I shall be less likely to be disappointed.†  (source)
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    It could also violate the 2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, created to protect people from losing their health insurance or employment due to genetic discrimination.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nondiscrimination means not and reverses the meaning of discrimination. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Not too long ago, racism and discrimination against women was accepted by a lot of people.  (source)
    discrimination = unfair treatment of a group of people
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    We shouldn't discriminate.  (source)
    discriminate = unfairly treat people of different groups differently
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    I read a book called Persecution by David Limbaugh about the various ways that Christians were discriminated against.†  (source)
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discriminate as in:  discriminating taste

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A wine expert can discriminate between subtle flavors.
discriminate = distinguish
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    Few people can discriminate between similar shades of blue.
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    It costs more, but is worth it to people with discriminating taste.
    discriminating = recognizing fine distinctions
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    She is a discriminating interior designer.
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    The Hungarian police struck out with truncheons and rifle butts, to right and left, without reason, indiscriminately their blows falling upon old men and women, children and invalids alike.  (source)
    indiscriminately = without recognition of differences
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscriminately means not and reverses the meaning of discriminately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    All gods dispense suffering without reason. ... Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear...  (source)
    indiscriminate = not recognizing differences and choosing people randomly for
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscriminate means not and reverses the meaning of discriminate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    ...the difficulty seismologists had discriminating between random noise ... and genuinely unusual signals that foretell a seismic event.  (source)
    discriminating = to recognize differences
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    I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.  (source)
    discrimination = ability to recognize fine distinctions
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    made her believe she could discriminate among them.  (source)
    discriminate = recognize the differences
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    —was all that Catherine had to say, for her indiscriminating eye scarcely discerned the colour of the satin; and all minuteness of praise, all praise that had much meaning, was supplied by the general: the costliness or elegance of any room's fitting-up could be nothing to her; she cared for no furniture of a more modern date than the fifteenth century.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscriminating means not and reverses the meaning of discriminating. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Mattie Gormer's undiscriminating good-nature, and the slap-dash sociability of her friends, who treated Lily precisely as they treated each other—all these characteristic notes of difference began to wear upon her endurance; and the more she saw to criticize in her companions, the less justification she found for making use of them.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undiscriminating means not and reverses the meaning of discriminating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    He had a spacious yet discriminative style, flecked with sparks of irony.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly.†  (source)
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    If any one part of their proceedings can be said to deserve less blame than another, it was the singular indiscrimination with which they persecuted, not merely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, brethren, and wives.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscrimination means not and reverses the meaning of discrimination. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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