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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of discriminate.

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Examples

  • If Rogat's criticism here is merely that there is no decision which dealt with state law that explicitly by its terms discriminated against the above mentioned minorities, he is right.

    Letters Cammer, Robert 1964

  • He went after them with loaded words: They "discriminated," "rationed care . . . denied coverage" and were "bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor."

    From Post-Partisan to Most Partisan Karl Rove 2010

  • While she is not the first to be "discriminated" against the thing that bothers me is that if I understand this Sgt Newsome had been in the military 9yrs!

    Police in South Dakota out lesbian Air Force staff sergeant 2010

  • Anton a "discriminated" Tamil from Sri Lanka was lucky enough to get a job in Sri Lanka's HC in London before he nipped out one morning said he was being "genocided" in SL and hey presto get a new passport.

    MR BEAN AND THE WAR ON TERROR 2009

  • After struggling to decide whether to stay silent or risk backlash by protesting, she eventually sent the other a cappella presidents a message detailing the ways "we'd been kind of discriminated against."

    Black in the Age of Obama 2009

  • Southern plantation owners "discriminated" against African Americans by not paying them for their work.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Still, I'm not sure who is "discriminated" against here.

    Balkinization 2007

  • As long as they don't have at least 4 videos on BET's top 10, they will be "discriminated" was searching for a better word but couldn't find it.

    Hella West Coast Compilations AKA Cali Been Active Dart Adams 2007

  • Do ever get "discriminated" against for being in the East, in terms of writer-like or guild things?

    Endorsement for Jeff Kleeman Rogers 2007

  • They seem to be written by people who are having lousy luck getting published, and are grasping at straws to come up with some reason why they are being "discriminated" against other than their lack of talent.

    Mirror Mirror on the Wall.. Miss Snark 2005

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