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comparative more antimerit · superlative most antimerit
- Opposing merit or merit-based systems.
Mr. Chair, diversity, equity, and inclusion is antimerit.
2024 July 23, Josh Breechen, quotee, “CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE”, in Govinfo, archived from the original on 21 Mar 20252 more examples
Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2025Around the turn of the 21st century, however, an antimerit movement started.
2024 February 14, “Is Merit Making a Comeback?”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2025
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antimerit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimerit
“antimerit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimerit. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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