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the practice of treating a person or different categories of people less fairly than others
- The company faced a lawsuit for discrimination against female employees.
- Discrimination based on race, gender, or religion is illegal in many countries.
- Efforts to reduce discrimination in the workplace include implementing diversity training programs.
- The new policies aim to combat discrimination and promote equality for all employees.
- She spoke out against discrimination after witnessing unfair treatment of her colleagues.
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the mental process of recognizing and distinguishing differences between two or more stimuli
- Visual discrimination allows children to tell letters apart when learning to read.
- The experiment tested participants' discrimination between different shades of blue.
- Dogs show fine auditory discrimination when trained to respond to specific sounds.
- Discrimination of flavors is essential in wine tasting.
- The task required quick discrimination between real words and nonsense words.
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