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
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
These distinct biases, historically coexisting, are now converging due to artificial intelligence.
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Shannon McKeen,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
But the biases of these systems suggest that physiognomy has taken a new, less explicit form.
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Cal Revely-Calder,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Stealth jurors — those who hide their true biases to influence a verdict — could pose a serious problem for prosecutors in either of Mangione's cases, Rahmani said.
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Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
Today, the probabilistic method is used across mathematics and computer science — to figure out if a number is prime, to design better circuits, or to clean up data without introducing biases.
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Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
26 June 2026
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
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
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.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
Meanwhile, Grok showed the strongest biases, highly favoring Catholics and Protestants while showing an aversion for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baha’i and Hindus.
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Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
3 July 2026
These distinct biases, historically coexisting, are now converging due to artificial intelligence.
—
Shannon McKeen,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
But the biases of these systems suggest that physiognomy has taken a new, less explicit form.
—
Cal Revely-Calder,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Stealth jurors — those who hide their true biases to influence a verdict — could pose a serious problem for prosecutors in either of Mangione's cases, Rahmani said.
—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2026
Today, the probabilistic method is used across mathematics and computer science — to figure out if a number is prime, to design better circuits, or to clean up data without introducing biases.
—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
26 June 2026
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.
—
Ravi Dhar,
Fortune,
23 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
Verb
Nationalist fervor over beating China biases AI policy toward recklessness — and possible catastrophe.
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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
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The same tendencies people are routinely told to correct are, in moderate form, closely tied to a busier, more exploratory style of thinking than most self-improvement advice accounts for.
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Plath shows up in Dederer’s book about (mostly) men who make great art and live monstrous lives (and what to do with them), but only as a woman who turns her violent tendencies against herself.
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As America turns 250, the semiquincentennial feels like a dud — a far cry from 1976’s bicentennial blowout, when pop culture and communal celebrations united a weary nation.
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The heat domes tend to form where the jet stream turns northward, moving up and over the dome itself and leading to strong flows of hot air from the south to the north near the Earth’s surface.
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Getty Choosing a college major has always been a big life decision, influenced by not only personal inclinations and talents, but also by starting salaries.
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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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In her memoir, Andrews mentions that her children briefly attended UCLA Lab School and that Joanna had affinities for horseback riding and reading.
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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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