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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
Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2026
The Korea Skating Union filed a complaint with the ISU for bias, but it was dismissed, as there was no hard evidence.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
Means, who trained as a surgeon before turning to alternative medicine, suggested that her mother’s doctors were biased by financial interests.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The Tarrant County Democratic Party decided not to file a petition to extend the early voting location hours because of the potential for human bias in the decision if the certain votes will be counted or not.
—Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2026
The Korea Skating Union filed a complaint with the ISU for bias, but it was dismissed, as there was no hard evidence.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
Despite that personal connection, the prosecutor allegedly remained actively involved in the case, retained supervisory authority over the prosecution team, and discussed the matter internally, raising concerns that prosecutorial discretion may have been influenced by personal fear, trauma or bias.
—Stepheny Price , Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
Means, who trained as a surgeon before turning to alternative medicine, suggested that her mother’s doctors were biased by financial interests.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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Pope Leo made an appeal for a world free from antisemitism, prejudice, oppression and persecution Wednesday before linking the message to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was observed the day before.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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What Rusbridger’s account leaves out is that the BBC has reproduced the prejudices of successive British establishments since its inception in the early twentieth century, whether by propagandizing against workers during the general strike of 1926 or by condemning the antiwar protests of 2003.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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To tap into each other’s tendencies, to establish chemistry as pick-and-roll partners.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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One of their experiments, using GPT-5, examined how the chatbot would behave in a new chat session after a user submitted text classified as supporting left- or right-wing authoritarian tendencies.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
23 Jan. 2026
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From bay to headlands, the Crosstown Trail slices diagonally across San Francisco in a 17-mile arc.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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In the footage, Victoria steps out diagonally opposite of Brooklyn, her back slightly turned toward him.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Researchers in Germany are set to turn green waste, hay and algae into fully biodegradable plastics.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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Together, these trends have turned industrial space into a cornerstone of national logistics and digital capacity.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 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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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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What Analysts Are Saying Despite the average analyst inclination towards the status quo or pessimistic scenarios, the $29 average price target masks mixed views.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The trick is to select a paint color that is calming and neutral enough so as not to be too visually demanding, while also speaking to your personal style and color inclinations.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2026
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Unfortunately, hyper-partisanship rather than truth-seeking has become the new norm in our state and national governments.—
Gwen Faulkenberry,
Arkansas Online,
22 Jan. 2026
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Reid seemed to truly believe, despite the partisanship that suffused the column, that the Senate had been badly damaged.—
Jon Ralston,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2026
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Federal investigators in Guam believed the devices held evidence that would help prove individuals handling the island’s Covid unemployment assistance program were part of a plot to steal funds.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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With an undeletable presence embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million enterprise devices, Absolute delivers persistent visibility, control, and auto-repair capabilities that operate even when systems fail.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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