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What is the verb for discriminations?

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discriminate
  1. (intransitive) To make distinctions.
  2. (intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions based on prejudice.
  3. (transitive) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I won't have you or anyone else discriminate against him based on his past mistakes.”
      “While we do not inhabit a moral universe where the alternatives are black and white, we do have the capacity to discriminate between what is truly wrong and what is unfortunate but necessary.”
discriminating
discriminates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of discriminate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Will anyone stand up against an employer that discriminates against women or do we just look the other way?”
      “The extinction ratio indicates how well the polarizing beam splitter discriminates between two planes of polarization.”
      “The second canonical axis discriminates among all three dialects using a combination of the features of the W element.”
discriminated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of discriminate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I am discriminated against, and so are my parents, by reason of age on almost a daily basis.”
      “Thus the actual levels of perceived social support cannot be discriminated by respondent category.”
      “They are discriminated against because of fear that they could be a fifth column which would destroy the state from within.”
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