as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
in my admittedly biased opinion, my wife is always the prettiest woman in whatever room she graces
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or biassed
as in prejudiced
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 biased
Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Trump’s decision makes good on weeks of threats from administration officials and Republican lawmakers toward the public media outlets, accusing them of biased reporting.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 3 May 2025
If child custody is a factor, the child’s testimony is parsed under the light of a biased adult who either coached the child, or negatively influenced the child by asking leading questions, so as to distort the child’s memory and reporting.
—Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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WRITING ON THE WALL – NPR CEO claps back at notion outlet is biased after Trump slashes taxpayer funds.
—FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
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Adjective
Like its longtime owner, Rupert Murdoch, the Post is right-wing and gleefully biased.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Trump’s decision makes good on weeks of threats from administration officials and Republican lawmakers toward the public media outlets, accusing them of biased reporting.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 3 May 2025
If child custody is a factor, the child’s testimony is parsed under the light of a biased adult who either coached the child, or negatively influenced the child by asking leading questions, so as to distort the child’s memory and reporting.
—Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
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WRITING ON THE WALL – NPR CEO claps back at notion outlet is biased after Trump slashes taxpayer funds.
—FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased
Adjective
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However, that is only a partial consolation: to buy back those months, borrowers must make extra lump-sum payments for each month of forbearance and wait for those payments to be processed and credited.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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This week in politics The Kansas Department of Transportation is now managing six bridge projects in Wyandotte County associated with four complete bridge closures, several partial closures and additional lane restrictions.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2025
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And this is a very hard-line government that has taken a kind of hostile view of everybody in the region.—
Obed Manuel,
NPR,
15 May 2025
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And Marguerite did actually manage to live there for years, scraping together a life on the hostile tundra.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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In the distorted reality of Trump 2.0, that slightly lighter punch in the gut is what counts as relief.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 May 2025
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Nicole Schaefer Nicole Schaefer, RN, LME, is a prominent figure in the aesthetics industry who possesses the power to transform every distorted reflection into a work of art.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
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But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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According to data intelligence firm Morning Consult, DEI is one of the hot-button issues that produces the widest partisan gaps in what Americans want brands to talk about.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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Trump’s messianic appeal may seem like a twenty-first-century creation, a product of partisan rage, epistemic drift, and American-style evangelicalism.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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Our publicist persuaded the New York Times to do an article on the hundredth anniversary of La Bohème and its staying power as reflected by Rent.—
Jeffrey Seller,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
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Convinced that sunken treasures were hidden beneath what was about to become three high-rise buildings, the amateur river detectives donned hard hats and persuaded a backhoe operator to let them onto the site.—
Kinsey Gidick,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Apr. 2025
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Judge John Judge granted the defense motion to move the trial out of Latah County due to concerns the local community is prejudiced against him.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
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America’s seeming inability to escape the pull of Vietnam’s symbolic weight shifts the focus away from the issues at hand by invoking the distant world of Vietnam-era America in which criticisms of misguided foreign military intervention or prejudiced domestic policies can be safely contained.—
Made by History,
Time,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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