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Is discriminate a verb

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10y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Discriminate is usually a verb (to act in a discriminatory or exclusory manner). But it can also be used as an adjective, meaning motivated by selectivity (a discriminate process) rather than by discrimination (which would be the adjective discriminatory).

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