How to Use inequality in a Sentence

inequality

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  • 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.
  • Her research and writing focus on gender, health and inequality.
    — Marianne Cooper, Harvard Business Review, 1 Nov. 2024
  • So, however, does failing to help debtors: Debt is one of the greatest drivers of wealth inequality.
    — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • In part the growing interest in family aid is rooted in concerns about inequality.
    — Jason Deparle, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Advances in agriculture proved Malthus wrong, but today’s experts still fear a food crisis: driven not by overall yields, but by drastic inequality.
    — Hailey Haymond, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Based on an original script by Rock, pic is described to us by sources as a contemporary tale of Hollywood excess and inequality.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • To address inequality at its roots, without sacrificing the rule of law or the ideal of a truly multiracial democracy—that is more difficult.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • At both the global and national level, social and economic inequality remains pervasive.
    — Natalia Kanem, Time, 14 Nov. 2022
  • What researchers have to say The weight of inequality: What's to blame?
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Credit cards have been an agent of rising inequality in the business world as well as in the human world.
    — James Lardner, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Gifting is just one part of the greater issue of racial inequality in the influencer space.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • This inequality persisted for more than a decade after the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 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

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