Sample Sentences for
equitable
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    I pray some equitable exchange of captives can be arranged before too very long.†  (source)
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    I was uncertain about what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew it would have something to do with the lives of the poor, America's history of racial inequality, and the struggle to be equitable and fair with one another.†  (source)
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    Deeming Adam either suicidal or "too big for his britches," he chose a more size-equitable boy, and when practice ended, Adam still hadn't gotten a turn.†  (source)
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    When it became clear that the problem was not with school policy itself, but the misguided judgment of a particular teacher—a teacher out of touch with Harrison values—a solution was worked out that is equitable to all—and preserves the good name of our community.†  (source)
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    Four inclinations toward overcooked lamb had been narrowly averted, more than five bottles of Latour had been poured, and the two members of the Politburo had been equitably seated and equitably served.†  (source)
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    The school itself tended to tolerate disrespectful behavior, exhibited inequitable discipline and an inflexible culture-with certain students enjoying prestige given to them by teachers and staff.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inequitable means not and reverses the meaning of equitable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.†  (source)
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    Durrfeld has unbent so naturally that he even feels constrained to utter a vague apology; he should not allow the British and the Dutch to agitate him so, he says to the Professor in a mild voice, forgive the outburst, but surely their monopolistic practices and manipulations of the supply of a natural product like rubber, which all the world should receive equitably, was an abomination.†  (source)
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    It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment.†  (source)
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    There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably.†  (source)
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    It is a plan which is fair, sound, equitable and—†  (source)
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    "Nicole and I will talk things over," said Dick equitably.†  (source)
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    But I had a lot on my mind and wasn't feeling particularly equitable.†  (source)
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