privileges

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“Privileges . . . are the specific benefits or advantages that come with possessing privilege. These can include access to better education, healthcare, job opportunities, and social networks. Privileges can also be more subtle, such as not having to worry about being discriminated against or harassed due to one’s race or gender. Privileges can be both tangible and intangible, and they often work together to reinforce existing power structures and inequalities.”

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privilege

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“Related Words
advantage 
allowance 
authority 
authorization 
benefit 
concession 
due 
entitlement 
exemption 
freedom 
immunity 
license 
opportunity 
prerogative 
right”

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prejudice

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“Related Words
animosity 
bias 
bigotry 
chauvinism 
discrimination 
enmity 
injustice 
intolerance 
preconception 
predilection 
predisposition 
racism 
sexism 
xenophobia”

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pregnant persons

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“3 A politician must appeal to the people: the public, the common people, the little people, the rank and file, the masses, the multitude, the millions, the man in the street, John Q. Public; commoners, the common run; the lower classes, the lower orders, the working class, the working man, the mob, the rabble, the herd, the crowd, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi.”

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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pregnant person

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“pregnant person: A pregnant person is an individual with a fetus developing inside their body, typically within the uterus. The term is used to be inclusive of all people who can become pregnant, such as transgender men and nonbinary individuals, in addition to cisgender women. The process of pregnancy involves conception, implantation of the fertilized egg, and the subsequent development of the embryo into a fetus, usually lasting about 40 weeks.” – google

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pregnant people

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The growing use of “pregnant people” signals a cultural evolution toward recognizing and affirming the identities of all who experience pregnancy. ” – google

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pollution

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“Initially enamored of the industry’s potential, Dermish now worried that its pollution endangered the health of the town’s 75 residents.”
From Salon

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