How to Use affirmative action in a Sentence

affirmative action

noun
  • In that same scene, her dad makes a snide remark about affirmative action.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2024
  • A lot of his orders had to do with civil rights and affirmative action.
    — Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Thomas has lectured blacks about the evils of affirmative action.
    — John Blake, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
  • This is how affirmative action came into being in the first place.
    — Gabriel Rossman, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.
    — Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones Phoebe Zerwick Sam Apple Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Jillian Steinhauer Peter C. Baker John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • This has always been the crux of the affirmative action debate.
    — Adam Liptak, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • When affirmative action sought to level the playing field, white people got mad and put an end to it.
    — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • So affirmative action ruins the very people that claims to help.
    — Fox News, 16 July 2018
  • The argument that affirmative action has gone too far falls flat.
    — Richard J. Reddick, Fortune, 5 July 2018
  • Trump wants to end affirmative action.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • Trump wants to end affirmative action.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Trump wants to end affirmative action.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Now that Roe has been overturned, affirmative action is next on the high court’s docket this fall.
    — Van Jones, CNN, 20 July 2022
  • The Supreme Court takes up a case on affirmative action today.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The new affirmative action guidance may add to an already contentious fight over the next justice.
    — Eric Tucker, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • But the affirmative action backlash only picked up steam.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The new affirmative action guidance could add to an already contentious fight over the next justice.
    — Eric Tucker, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2018
  • The state isn’t alone this year in the conflict surrounding affirmative action.
    — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The affirmative action case probably will be argued in the fall.
    — Mark Sherman, chicagotribune.com, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The affirmative action case probably will be argued in the spring.
    — Mark Sherman, ajc, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Even still, most Americans agree with the goals of affirmative action.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Amendment works both ways in the case of affirmative action; race cannot be the only factor in the admissions process.
    — CNN, 29 Sep. 2021
  • How many times will the question of affirmative action come before the Supreme Court?
    — Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The schools are at the center of two high-profile cases that pose a threat to affirmative action admission policies.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Three years later, when her case returned to the court, the justices in a narrow ruling upheld the school’s use of affirmative action.
    — Jessica Gresko, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Three years later, when her case returned to the court, the justices in a narrow ruling upheld the school's use of affirmative action.
    — Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • White admission rates have declined the most during the past 2½ decades, despite the end of affirmative action.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The firm is also behind a major affirmative action case heading to the Supreme Court.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 18 Nov. 2021
  • While the court cases progress, some fear a trip back to the Supreme Court could end affirmative action permanently.
    — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024
  • That case only said no affirmative action in college admissions.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025

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