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
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
The Atlanta coach shed a biased smile.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 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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Adjective
Rewriting society’s decision-making Unlike biased pundits who hem, haw and hedge their bets, Web3 prediction markets cut through noise, bequeathing a signal that feeds into pricing mechanisms themselves.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
The Atlanta coach shed a biased smile.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 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 biased
Adjective
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There are also patchy or partial fall colors in the western part of the country, primarily in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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But as midnight that day passed without a vote on a spending plan, lawmakers bought themselves some time with a stopgap funding plan to avert a partial government shutdown for a week.—
Clara Hendrickson,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The school certainly wouldn’t be prejudiced against him.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
22 Sep. 2025
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Earlier this month, Singapore’s High Court found Law to have breached his fiduciary duties and prejudiced the interest of creditors while navigating his company through the financial challenges stemming from the COVID pandemic.—
Lionel Lim,
Fortune,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Tampa is heading into a hostile environment against a feisty Seattle Seahawks team that matches them with a 3-1 record.—
Josh Buckhalter,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Republicans, traditionally seen as more hostile to government, are often viewed as the shutdown aggressors.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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With hundreds of Elanco employees gathered with blue confetti at the ready, Indy, a rescue shelter dog turned service-dog-in-training, performed the official ribbon cutting, or in this case ribbon biting.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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When her biological daughter turned 7, however, something shifted.—
Nicole Chung,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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A lot of the super distorted stuff is getting really popular.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
2 Oct. 2025
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His band delivered distorted guitar, thumping bass and gritty percussion.—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The concerted propaganda effort lasted for over a year, but the people were not convinced.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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But many physicists are not convinced by this cut-and-dried distinction.—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Other federal agencies have crafted similarly partisan messages from the typically apolitical civil service amid a legislative standoff largely over disagreements related to health care cuts.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Morteza Nikoubazl—NurPhoto/Getty Images Advertisement Iran may need an independent water authority insulated from partisan politics.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Engels persuaded the skeptical Marx that the working class was history’s true engine.—
Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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Bivins would end up betraying Villar when FBI agents persuaded him to call the roofer on July 15, 2024, on their burner cellphones.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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