BIAS CRIME Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

bias crime

noun

Definition of bias crime

as in hate crime

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Recent Examples of bias crime Through last Sunday, bias crimes in the city were down 18% this year, with 18 incidents compared to 22 by this time last year. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2025 Hay was arrested and booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on assault and bias crime charges, officials said. — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 21 May 2024 Because of the victim’s profile, the police had designated the attack a bias crime. — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024 Those numbers have continued to rise in the first month of 2024 as the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force has seen a 12% increase in bias crimes, according to police department statistics. — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bias crime

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Noun

City Hall will increase grant funding to community organizations that focus on hate crime prevention and survivor support.

— Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
City Hall will increase grant funding to to community organizations that focus on hate crime prevention and survivor support.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of hate crime

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Kyle Teel reached on a fielder’s choice, advanced to second on a wild pitch and moved to third on a throwing error by catcher Hunter Goodman.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2026
The lead lasted into the bottom of the sixth until an error from Jose Altuve sparked the offensive explosion from the A’s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026

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At that point, Jesse had been dead for a decade, and Frank had been tried for crimes three times—in Missouri, then Alabama, and back to Missouri again.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026
Police said the vandalism was classified as a property crime rather than a hate offense, and the teen was released to his parents.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of crime

Noun

The federal government is issuing debt to finance a large deficit, while companies are borrowing heavily to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure.

— Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Bloomberg reported this week that Oracle’s decision to invoke force majeure on a New Mexico data center sent the cost of insuring its debt against default to a record.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

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