How to Use inequality in a Sentence

inequality

noun
  • 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.
  • Wealth inequality has hit its widest gap in more than three decades.
    — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
  • And if so, isn’t that its own form of inequality?
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The inequalities of the art world are gestured to as fact.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The enslaved soon put this inequality to good use.
    — Marlene L. Daut september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But there are wider inequalities that gave rise to the unrest which will take years to resolve.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Income and wealth inequality is a choice our country has made.
    — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • Wealth inequality has widened in recent years.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
  • Chouinard is not alone in his feelings that wealth inequality is a growing concern.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • An era of glaring inequality was also a golden age of graft.
    — Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • If tyranny is where democracies go to die, inequality is the cause of death.
    — Anand Gopal, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • And zooming out, most sheriffs think racial inequality is a problem that’s been solved.
    — USA Today, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The notion of wealth and income inequality isn’t new.
    — Greg Iacurci,jessica Dickler, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
  • These were not people who disagreed with our goal of fighting inequality.
    — Nick Hanauer, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • But this era was also marked by corruption and wealth inequality.
    — Adrian Ma, NPR, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Gifting is just one part of the greater issue of racial inequality in the influencer space.
    — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Here are some of the top culprits driving inequality in health care—and ideas for overcoming them.
    — Ashley Lutz, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
  • That is the inequality Stiglitz has been describing for years.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • In other words, income inequality drives home prices.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Across the slate, a fixation on class and inequality recurs.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • The report, which draws on data compiled by Forbes, looks at the rise of inequality over the past two years.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN, 22 May 2022
  • The common thread across these eras is stark economic inequality.
    — Sarita Gupta, Time, 2 June 2026
  • The inequality in outcomes between rich and poor school districts has gotten worse.
    — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2022
  • In a country with high levels of gender inequality, policies aimed at closing this gap could go a long way.
    — Sarah Khan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2024

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