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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
James Foulds, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Hunter makes accusations against the judge's bias in Williams' case.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 18 June 2025
Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
While we may be biased, there’s something special about a Southern summer.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 5 June 2025
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Noun
These models can produce outputs that are factually inaccurate, misleading or reflect harmful biases embedded in the training data.
—James Foulds, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Hunter makes accusations against the judge's bias in Williams' case.
—Liza Esquibias, People.com, 18 June 2025
Verb
Trump and his allies have long attacked public broadcasters, alleging much of their news content is biased against conservatives and arguing taxpayers should not have to underwrite media coverage that is not supportive of his administration.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 30 Apr. 2025
While we may be biased, there’s something special about a Southern summer.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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The series maintains a light touch and a brisk pace while managing to touch on class disparity and cultural prejudice without ever feeling preachy or forced.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
26 June 2025
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But as with most anything, inherent prejudice reared its ugly head.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Having been sober for many decades herself, Bev recognizes the narcissism of addiction, the way addicts have a tendency to put themselves at the center of the universe.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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But beneath the surface, there’s often a fragile sense of self, defended by a deep need for control, an inability to tolerate shame, and a tendency to distort reality in ways that protect their internal world at the expense of those around them.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
27 June 2025
Adverb
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The screen size is the most noticeable increase, 7.9 inches (measured diagonally), up from 6.2 inches.—
Sabrina Rojas Weiss,
Parents,
26 June 2025
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The Thunder had clinched the NBA title just minutes earlier at the Paycom Center, which sits diagonally across from the northeast corner of the park.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
23 June 2025
Verb
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By 1913 Henry Ford’s moving-belt assembly line cut build time to 93 minutes, and cheap Texas oil kept the tank full, turning personal mobility from luxury to the default setting.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
22 June 2025
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And proves once again that Southerners can turn almost anything into a dip.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
Noun
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But, actually, partiality is one of the reasons that scenarios are valuable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
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Murrow worked on Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign while at CBS, excusing his partiality as moral and intellectual superiority.—
Armond White,
National Review,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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And, swear to God, my inclination to be a doctor was that.—
Kimberly Dishongh,
Arkansas Online,
22 June 2025
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And Just Like That is out of a inclination to see Carrie continue to live her messy and fabulous life as a pretty egregiously out-of-touch Manhattan socialite.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
20 June 2025
Noun
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In an age of division and partisanship, few issues receive more universal support than clean water and the Chesapeake Bay.—
Kristin Reilly,
Baltimore Sun,
17 June 2025
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Trump didn’t create partisanship, political violence or negative partisanship.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
Noun
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In an unprecedented move, our public schools handed out hundreds of thousands of devices to help more than 1 million students continue to safely learn online with their teachers and classmates.—
Dr. Mitchell Katz,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Efficient energy storage is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, which can impact everything from grid-scale energy storage to electric vehicles and portable devices.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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