variants
or biassing
as in turning
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 biasing
While not feasible in all work settings, adopting a practice of removing personal information about gender and other potentially biasing characteristics can increase fair and consistent performance evaluations.
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Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Michelle Travis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for biasing
Verb
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Your 12th House of Silence hosts ambitious Mars, who’s cheering on Pluto in your 10th House of Audiences, turning private prep into public credibility without draining you.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
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But the team wasted no time turning a new leaf.—
Juli McDonald,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Part of convincing him to do the play was not so much selling him on the material but selling him on the act of doing theater.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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But Stanley said the effort was entirely consistent with Patagonia's results-first philosophy — because Walmart is so huge, convincing it to do something as simple as not idling its delivery trucks while they are unloaded has a significant environmental benefit.—
Tony Biasotti,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Whitehead emphasized that district courts possess broad discretion in managing their dockets and found that further delay would risk prejudicing the plaintiffs given the ongoing effects of the suspension and associated agency actions.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Biasing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biasing. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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