disproportionately suffer
Frequency: 7.511.3 per million words
Indicates that a particular group experiences negative consequences or hardship to a much greater degree than others.
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- Low-income families often disproportionately suffer during economic recessions.
- During the pandemic, elderly populations were seen to disproportionately suffer from severe complications.
- Coastal communities will disproportionately suffer the consequences of rising sea levels.
- Critics argue that the new tax policy will cause small businesses to disproportionately suffer.
- Farmers in arid regions have disproportionately suffered from the prolonged drought.
- In many conflict zones, women and children disproportionately suffer from violence and displacement.
- Without proper investment, residents of poorer neighborhoods disproportionately suffer from inadequate public services.
- Students without reliable internet access disproportionately suffered when schools moved to online learning.
- Developing nations often disproportionately suffer the effects of climate change, despite contributing the least to it.
- We must implement fair policies so that no single group disproportionately suffers from the changes.