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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
Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 July 2025
David Ellison and his company Skydance Media promised to eliminate all U.S.-based DEI programs at Paramount and to create a new ombudsman to field complaints of ideological bias in its news coverage.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 24 July 2025
Scott Neuman, NPR, 25 June 2025
Trump has sought to eliminate federal funding to PBS and NPR via executive order, but the White House, deeming the networks biased to the left, sent a package of rescissions last week to roll back funding to CPB.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 June 2025
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Noun
The new directive builds on Trump’s longstanding claims of bias in the tech industry.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 24 July 2025
David Ellison and his company Skydance Media promised to eliminate all U.S.-based DEI programs at Paramount and to create a new ombudsman to field complaints of ideological bias in its news coverage.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 24 July 2025
Verb
The House held a hearing earlier this year at which many Republicans accused PBS and NPR of being woke and biased against conservative viewpoints.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 25 June 2025
Trump has sought to eliminate federal funding to PBS and NPR via executive order, but the White House, deeming the networks biased to the left, sent a package of rescissions last week to roll back funding to CPB.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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The film aims to capture not just the high-octane world of Formula One, but the deeply personal journey of a man who refused to let geography, economics, or prejudice limit his dreams.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 July 2025
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Dunnington also pointed out that the charges were dismissed without prejudice, meaning prosecutors could refile the charges.—
Cameron Knight,
The Enquirer,
17 July 2025
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Because many young parents grew up at a time when diseases like measles were not common, there can be a tendency to not recognize their seriousness.—
Andrew Montequin,
jsonline.com,
22 July 2025
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According to this report, such a tendency creates a false sense of immediacy, which can have a negative impact of real social relationships.—
Eric Wood,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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France is often associated with having an 'empty' middle, a strip of vast land that traverses the country diagonally (the 'diagonale du vide', the empty diagonal), which is less populated than its mountains or coastlines and has fewer infrastructure and services.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Anne Hathaway is the latest celebrity to wade into the cutout denim trend, stepping out on July 9 in a pair of Area jeans with a statement-making chainlink cutout running diagonally across the front.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
10 July 2025
Verb
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Fister, meanwhile, turned into a strikeout machine, and well, a latter-day Alexander, with an 11.4 K/BB ratio and a 1.79 ERA in 11 starts.—
Ryan Ford,
Freep.com,
29 July 2025
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The trade turned into one of the most lopsided deals in big-league history.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
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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
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Our inclination might be to freeze event planning and ride out the storm, but history shows that innovation thrives in adversity.—
Shawn Pierce,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket arced downrange over the Atlantic Ocean, heading northeast to place its payload into the Kuiper constellation at an inclination of 51.9 degrees to the equator.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 July 2025
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But contrary to popular belief, lawmakers are not always simply voting based on blind partisanship.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Partisan breakdown Opinions on the Middle Eastern conflict are heavily divided based on partisanship, found the poll, which has a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2025
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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 4 Aug. 2025.
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