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discriminate
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discriminate as in:  suffered discrimination

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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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    The pictures were supposed to show the equality of the sexes or highlight discrimination against women.  (source)
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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
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    We can't be the Buccaneers because pirates supported violence and discrimination against women.  (source)
    discrimination = unfair treatment to a group
    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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    THE CLIMATE OF THE SCHOOL IS BECOMING DISCRIMINATORY.†  (source)
    DISCRIMINATORY = in a manner that unfairly treats people of different groups differently
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    Paradoxically enough, it was when I was away from her, when I was withdrawn from her context, back in my room at night or in the hot early afternoon, after lunch, that I was savagely impatient of the delays and discriminations.† 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)
    discriminates = unfairly treats people of different groups differently
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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)
    Nondiscrimination = not treating different groups of people differently
    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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    And while job discrimination against women is real, it has less to do with sexism than with employers being wary of China's generous maternity benefits.  (source)
    discrimination = unfair treatment of different groups of people differently
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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)
    discriminated = unfairly treated people of different groups differently
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discriminate as in:  discriminating taste

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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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    His mouth had the discrimination of a garbage heap.  (source)
    discrimination = recognition of differences -- especially fine distinctions
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    made her believe she could discriminate among them.  (source)
    discriminate = recognize the differences
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    I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas.  (source)
    indiscriminately = without preference for one over another
    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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    ...indiscriminate application of effort is something that is not always possible. There are times when we need a convenient shortcut, a way to make a lot out of a little, and that is what Tipping Points, in the end, are all about.  (source)
    indiscriminate = not recognizing differences during
    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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    Data on 7420 subjects tested by H1H2 program for multifactorial analysis of variance; later test by ANOVAR program; final discrimination by CLASSIF program.  (source)
    discrimination = the process of recognizing differences -- especially 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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    his extensive and not too discriminate search for sex  (source)
    discriminate = appreciative of differences -- especially fine distinctions
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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)
    undiscriminating = not recognizing or perceiving differences
    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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    —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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    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)
    discriminatingly = in a way that recognizes or perceives differences
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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)
    indiscrimination = without recognition of differences
    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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