How to Use partiality in a Sentence
partiality
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But sports have rarely been about honesty and have always been about partiality.
—Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
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This type of partiality, termed taxonomic bias, isn’t unique.
—Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2024
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Buyers have displayed a partiality for in-person tours of the properties in recent months.
—Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 18 May 2021
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Schumer's partiality to a classic one-piece is well-documented.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 3 Apr. 2026
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This Sunday’s order is a matter of preference and partiality, but the top five itself seems clear.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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But even as the genre draws from all around it, the real marvel of lo-fi hip-hop on YouTube is its partiality to minimalism.
—Jason Parham, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
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There should be no equivocation or the appearance of partiality.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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Prior to 2019, the contract was managed by the county courts, but it was transferred to the city to avoid the appearance of partiality.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2021
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There is the same partiality for native plantings, plus plants that thrive in briny air, and other landscaping tricks to support resilience; the platform on which much of the park is built is ready for the next flood.
—Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 30 June 2018
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Large arbitration groups, such as the AAA, do have codes of conduct that prohibit such partiality.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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Soderstrom should be removed for reasons that include gross neglect of duty, gross partiality in office and oppression in office, Kane wrote.
—Ken Miller, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023
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Despite the potential partiality, seven jurors were seated by Tuesday’s lunch break.
—Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2022
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Some legal scholars who have studied the impact of empathy on court decision making have found it as a necessary factor for avoiding partiality.
—Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2022
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Roy DeCarava was a mentor, one whose influence on Bey is plain in his partiality to shadow and contrast.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
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These young professionals are known for their tech-savviness, desire for meaningful work and partiality for innovative workplaces.
—John Case, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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True, judges are ethically obligated to avoid the perception of partiality.
—Nathan L. Kinard, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
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The accused and accuser, for their part, might have reason to question the partiality of an investigation conducted in house and whether the inquiry is a sham done to protect the employer.
—Gabriella Levine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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One of the interesting properties of Phutball is that any move could be played by either player, the only partiality in the game being the rule for determining the winner.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2015
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Our current chancellor is committed to using his authority without any partiality other than what is in the best interests of students and the school system overall.
—Alejandra Matos, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2017
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Such an arrangement is inherently vulnerable to bias and partiality.
—Michael McCann, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
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The theorists feel great crimes have been committed but—by reason of the instability of language, and the partiality of those who speak it—there can be no possibility of an indictment.
—Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
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O’Toole’s is a wildly ambitious project, one that accounts for inevitable partiality precisely through this invocation of the personal.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
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O’Toole’s is a wildly ambitious project, one that accounts for inevitable partiality precisely through this invocation of the personal.
—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
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To allow a white patron to idle indefinitely while simultaneously calling the police to remove black patrons by force in two minutes is more than mere unwitting partiality.
—Shamira Ibrahim, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Apr. 2018
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The common denominator of many of its viral moments is an unspoken partiality to Black cultural expression.
—Jason Parham, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020
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Few things communicate partiality as strongly as a celebration of the Confederates.
—Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 12 May 2017
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But from an ethical standpoint, there’s not a good reason for absolute partiality, where a country covers every one of its citizens before giving any vaccine internationally.
—Jim Daley, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2020
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Those include proving misconduct, fraud or partiality by an arbitrator — not necessarily the merit of the decision or interpretation of the facts.
—David Ovalle, miamiherald, 10 June 2017
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Six of the seven justices weighed in with questions during the oral arguments, some seemingly in support of a new custody hearing by a different judge and some concerned about invading judges' discretion in assessing their own partiality.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2020
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Despite its partiality to a president’s power over independent federal agencies, the court has repeatedly suggested that the Fed is an exception.
—Jackie Calmes, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
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