biases 1 of 2

plural of bias

biases

2 of 2

verb

variants or biasses
present tense third-person singular of bias
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
Noun
Of course, Graham’s job is to muddy the waters — to play up the socioeconomic biases of his screen persona so that viewers are willing to at least entertain the idea that Miguel has valid reason to be so afraid of everything. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026 Teaching students to actively hunt for hallucinations, logical gaps and hidden biases in AI drafts transforms them from passive consumers into critical editors—building deep domain mastery by evaluating why an AI answer fails. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026 The business owners’ attorney, Russell Cormican, who has been litigating cases related to psychics and fortunetellers for over 20 years, said regulations of psychics’ free speech are often driven by discriminatory beliefs and biases. Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026 Most of the time, people come with their pre-existing views and biases, repeat them out loud, close their minds to alternative perspectives, and go home even more sure of their ways. Ben Bland, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2026 The whole mess perfectly highlight how AI models can further biases deeply entrenched in their training data from the open web. Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 20 Aug. 2026 Why your knees may be taking the hit Unfortunately, modern life biases muscle use toward the front of the body, which reinforces posture problems and strength imbalances that disrupt the natural function of your braking system. Dana Santas, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026 So the first one is to be aware of your own anthropomorphic cognitive biases. Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026 To account for potential biases, the researchers made two types of comparisons. Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
Obesity is clearly multifactorial, and emphasizing biology spotlights biological solutions, which biases our selection of choices related to our health. Max Moser, STAT, 9 July 2026 Nationalist fervor over beating China biases AI policy toward recklessness — and possible catastrophe. Robert Wright, Washington Post, 26 June 2026 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. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for biases
Noun
  • Clerc’s rationale was centered on the Houthis recent tendencies to mainly target Saudi Arabian vessels passing through the strait.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The whole thing plays like something concocted by an 8th grader sitting in the back of biology class and doodling movie ideas in his notebook, offering more proof that Besson has never quite risen above the juvenile tendencies of his early years.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • That in turn feeds ‘The Ticker’, the basic on-screen representation of the score and ‘The Computer’, another programme that turns that raw information into the more intricate graphics that appear on the screen.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Teaching students to actively hunt for where logic breaks turns them from passive consumers into sharp, critical evaluators of AI systems.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Putin will eventually leave office, whether by death, illness, or—against all observable inclinations—stepping aside.
    Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
  • People with gene variants that affect these inclinations may also be at a higher risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes, researchers found.
    Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 28 July 2026
Noun
  • For this class, the premise is that your purpose in life lies to the intersection of your values, your aptitudes and your interests.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • 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.
    GRACIA LIU-FARRER, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As opposed to infantile regression, the oceanic feeling can also be understood as a means of recapturing a repressed sense of relation, connection, affinities.
    George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Marino also has a penchant for seeing affinities in the work of two artists who paths likely never crossed, as is the case with his two-person exhibition of Parsons and Accardi.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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