as in tendencies
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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or biasses
as in prejudices
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 biases
Ravi Dhar,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
By shifting the power dynamic back to the workforce, companies can dismantle paternalistic biases and build structures where employees actually want to stay.
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Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Although our modern fights are different, many of the same underlying issues remain — entrenched biases, efforts to limit women’s roles and rights, attacks on women’s autonomy, and attempts to raise doubts on women’s abilities, especially those of Black women.
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Jocelyn Frye,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2026
The biases of police investigating her laid the foundation for the defense theory of a local conspiracy to frame Read for O’Keefe’s murder and to protect others who were actually responsible.
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Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
19 June 2026
However, no endeavor, including sending spacecraft and people into orbit and beyond, has been totally independent from the biases and beliefs of the people shaping that effort.
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Margaret Landis,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
Investigations by the Georgia secretary of state and independent reviews contradict the core allegations of the affidavit, which relies on witnesses who lack credibility and have biases that weren't disclosed to the magistrate judge, Lowell argued.
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CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
One of the main arguments about using AI in research is its biases – which are undeniable, but humans have those too.
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New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2026
Rose pointed out that our decision-making, especially System 1 decision-making, is affected by cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
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Neil J. Rubenking,
PC Magazine,
26 Mar. 2026
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
An agent that knows us this well can draw on behavioral science—the same biases and triggers that have always influenced human decisions—to observe, understand, and either serve or manipulate us.
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Ravi Dhar,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
By shifting the power dynamic back to the workforce, companies can dismantle paternalistic biases and build structures where employees actually want to stay.
—
Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
Although our modern fights are different, many of the same underlying issues remain — entrenched biases, efforts to limit women’s roles and rights, attacks on women’s autonomy, and attempts to raise doubts on women’s abilities, especially those of Black women.
—
Jocelyn Frye,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2026
The biases of police investigating her laid the foundation for the defense theory of a local conspiracy to frame Read for O’Keefe’s murder and to protect others who were actually responsible.
—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
19 June 2026
However, no endeavor, including sending spacecraft and people into orbit and beyond, has been totally independent from the biases and beliefs of the people shaping that effort.
—
Margaret Landis,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
Investigations by the Georgia secretary of state and independent reviews contradict the core allegations of the affidavit, which relies on witnesses who lack credibility and have biases that weren't disclosed to the magistrate judge, Lowell argued.
—
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
One of the main arguments about using AI in research is its biases – which are undeniable, but humans have those too.
—
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2026
Rose pointed out that our decision-making, especially System 1 decision-making, is affected by cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
—
Neil J. Rubenking,
PC Magazine,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
In a recent 2020 study, even neutral words were processed by participants differently depending on whether they were placed in a positive or negative context, revealing that prior emotional tone biases how future information is received.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for biases
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The only real scoring chances arrived in the dying moments of a game that carried macabre tendencies, long after the match had devolved into a turf war.
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Across 15 tracks, the rapper and producer get to work making their first proper body of work together as memorable as expected, delving into relationship mishaps, selfish tendencies, and the absurdist comedy that is real life.
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Erratic sounds escape her—her body turns inside out, fingers extending and touching nothing.
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Hallowed Halls turns your home into a stately Victorian manor, complete with spooky portraits, eerie black-and-gold decor, and even a few séance essentials.
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Choosing a college major has always felt like a big life decision, influenced by not only personal inclinations and talents, but also by starting salaries—new engineering and computer science grads earn more than those with English degrees.
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There were inclinations to not fully believe in their capabilities against Argentina.
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For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.
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This model reflects Japan’s long-standing corporate culture, which prioritizes new hires for their general potential—their aptitudes and aspirations, as opposed to their current skill sets or university majors—and then trains them on the job.
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Spanish society has always had a relatively high tolerance for Latin American immigrants, who speak the local language and share certain cultural affinities.
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Squarcialupi said the time is now ripe for the brand to cross borders, toward Spain and other Mediterranean countries that have affinities with Italy.
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