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adjective

ˈbī-əst How to pronounce biased (audio)
Definition of biasednext
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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verb

variants or biassed
past tense of bias
as in turned
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
Adjective
He was released from prison after 580 days and saw Brazil’s Supreme Court annul his sentence after police found messages that showed the judge who convicted him was biased. — ElÉonore Hughes, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026 Lula was released from prison after 580 days and saw Brazil’s Supreme Court annul his sentence after police found messages that showed the judge who convicted him was biased. — Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Verb
The polling failure will serve to give further ammunition to the Brazilian right and the Bolsonaro camp, which have long alleged that the nation's leading pollsters turn in work biased in favor of Lula and his Workers Party. — David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Cotton also rejected an argument by Brown’s lawyers that jurors were biased because Brown’s felony conviction for his 2009 domestic violence assault on his then-girlfriend, Rihanna, was mentioned. — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for biased
Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased
  1. partial
  2. turned
  3. hostile
  4. prejudiced
  5. distorted
  6. convinced
  7. partisan
  8. persuaded
Adjective
  • Identifying red blood cells in dinosaurs The fossil is a partial hind limb of Aratasaurus museunacionali, a theropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
  • With more cars equipped with partial automation hitting the road, safety researchers are growing increasingly worried about driver attention and the potential for these systems to cause crashes.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of partial
Verb
  • The ambush-style attack turned into an eight-hour standoff with law enforcement.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The Chiefs entered 2026 hoping to rebound from a 6-11 season and return to the Super Bowl conversation, but their loss to Denver has turned simply winning the division into a dogfight.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of turned
Adjective
  • The Navy's Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, known as SWCCs, are elite maritime operators training to operate high-speed, heavily armed boats that transport Navy SEALs into and out of hostile territory, along with other maritime missions.
    — James LaPorta, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Even as crime drops and car crashes recede, New York’s streets and parks have grown increasingly hostile to those who are frail, slow, disabled, or small.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of hostile
Verb
  • In 2024, New York’s highest court erased Weinstein’s conviction six years ago and ordered a new trial, ruling that Weinstein was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren’t part of the case.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
  • But New York’s highest court erased those guilty verdicts in 2024, ruling that Weinstein was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren’t part of the case.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of prejudiced
Adjective
  • Cary said an image of a giraffe and distorted-looking lettering caught his attention, prompting him to take the packet from his child.
    — Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Its songs are littered with black holes, disasters, nuclear bombs; there are guttural screams and onslaughts of distorted guitar.
    — Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of distorted
Verb
  • Big business interests like building owners, developers and the property tax attorneys that file appeals for both lined up with Hynes, who convinced party officials to endorse him over the summer.
    — A.D. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
  • This came soon after Christie Brinkley styled leg-lengthening bootcut jeans for the red carpet, which convinced me to swap my baggy pairs for sleek lookalikes.
    — Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of convinced
Adjective
  • But some Democrats sought to preemptively dissuade their party from using a wave election to further stack the deck in a partisan fashion.
    — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Newman and backers like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters argued the current system was too easily abused for partisan ends, and could result in a candidate assuming office despite winning a small fraction of the vote.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of partisan
Verb
  • In 2020, Ben Motal aptly persuaded the Court of Appeals that the FOIA's right to copy records includes photographing them, after Little Rock incredibly barred him from snapping a picture of an accident report.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Carson didn’t answer her phone right away, silencing it until her husband persuaded her to call back.
    — Stacy Keltner, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of persuaded

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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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