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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
Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Automation bias can lead to critical errors of commission (acting on flawed advice) and omission (failing to act when a system misses something), particularly in high-stakes environments.
—Nelson Lim, Fortune, 10 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
There was also the potential for biases due to incomplete reporting of details.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Automation bias can lead to critical errors of commission (acting on flawed advice) and omission (failing to act when a system misses something), particularly in high-stakes environments.
—Nelson Lim, Fortune, 10 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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That’s the bias, that’s the prejudice.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory of the disease and seek the truth that will heal it.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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King said he was inspired in part by Rader’s arrest, more specifically, by his ability to keep his murderous tendencies completely unknown to the rest of his family.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Patriots defensive staff sifts through all kinds of data while scripting a game plan, from traditional player scouting reports, scheme tendencies, statistical analyses and film findings of their own.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
11 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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As the credits appeared on TV, Breakker hit Rollins with a spear, turning his back on his former stablemate of The Vision.—
Fernando Quiles Jr,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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The actor, who turned 98 on March 31, spoke to PEOPLE earlier this year.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
15 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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As Tuchel attested, England’s inclination to regain possession was as impressive as their work on the ball.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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But Iapetus’s inclination and equatorial ridge — which is more continuous on the Saturn-facing side — remain mysterious.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Oct. 2025
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Also, Americans report less trust in institutions and experts, and studies have found growing partisanship around vaccines.—
David Higgins,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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George Washington warned that the primary danger in politics is partisanship.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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The same chip technology could also be used for compact spectrometers, quantum devices, optical clocks, and next-generation LiDAR systems.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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The chip is expected to feature in laptops and handheld devices later this year and early 2026.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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