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as in prejudice
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
he has a powerful bias towards sentimentality, which comes through even in his grittier stories
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as in tendency
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
from her youth she revealed a strong bias toward a life of the mind
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as in diagonally
in a line or direction running from corner to corner
made of fabric cut bias
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as in to turn
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge
bad reviews biased her against the movie, even though it starred one of her favorite actors
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Recent Examples of bias
Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Some discussion on Chinese social media in recent days has also reflected a bias against potential Indian applicants to the K-visa.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
Unfortunately, Africa is at a disadvantage in that the data sets that these large language models are trained on are limited and biased in the first place.
—Moky Makura, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The fact that women, particularly single women, still face higher denial rates highlights the biases that are baked into the system.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Some discussion on Chinese social media in recent days has also reflected a bias against potential Indian applicants to the K-visa.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
Kennedy has claimed the former ACIP members were biased and had conflicts of interest.
—Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
Unfortunately, Africa is at a disadvantage in that the data sets that these large language models are trained on are limited and biased in the first place.
—Moky Makura, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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While her wit, charm and determination bring her attention, her collapsing health, social prejudice and family tensions conspire against her.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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The kind having to do with allegations that concertgoers were not warned about uncomfortably hot venues used in Madonna’s Celebration Tour concert that Crawshaw-Sparks had dismissed with prejudice on behalf of the pop star and Live Nation.—
Claudia Rosenbaum,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This is presumably a reference to Perkins' status as a closeted gay man, something Hitchcock likely knew, and not because Perkins had homicidal tendencies.—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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They were supervised, or not supervised, or supervised in such a way that their worst tendencies were encouraged instead of discouraged.—
Jennifer Gonnerman,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Now draw an imaginary line diagonally through the Dipper's bowl from Dubhe (the upper right star in the bowl) down through Phecda (the lower left star in the bowl) and extend that line downward about twice the distance between those two stars and that will bring you to the vicinity of Cor Caroli.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Fold squares in half diagonally over filling to create triangles.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Letang will turn 39 later this season, and Karlsson isn’t far behind at 35, so expecting any kind of a renaissance here feels unwise.—
Harman Dayal,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Still, there’s an inkling of hope that Swift will turn her attention to her movie in the coming months.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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But, actually, partiality is one of the reasons that scenarios are valuable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
Noun
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LaCombe, who played forward in his youth, has shown great improvement in his own end but still has the offensive inclinations to be a point producer.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Redford also shared that despite his inclination to public service, his ambitions were not political.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Trump takes shutdown politics to new levels of pain and partisanship.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Even in this time of hyper partisanship, Carr’s comments drew bipartisan ire.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
25 Sep. 2025
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As such, more will be required than a World Cup ticket, particularly because physical tickets are vulnerable to counterfeiting, while electronic devices, which may ordinarily be a way to show authentic tickets, are usually forbidden in consular buildings where interviews take place.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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