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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or biassed
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
David Bauder, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Because large language models contain vast datasets that can contain biased information, there are risks in basing real estate decisions too closely on what technologies suggest.
—Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
Some were prompted with an AI autocomplete answer that was deliberately biased toward one side of the issue.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
The new business frontiers do not indicate a weakening in the AP’s standards of providing fast, accurate, non-biased news, leaders said.
—David Bauder, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Because large language models contain vast datasets that can contain biased information, there are risks in basing real estate decisions too closely on what technologies suggest.
—Amancai Biraben, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
Still, Wolfe Research said that markets will be biased to the downside unless the conflict ends and the Strait of Hormuz reopens or there is a major sell-off event that marks a bottom.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026
Some were prompted with an AI autocomplete answer that was deliberately biased toward one side of the issue.
—Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased
Adjective
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One person has died, and two people are missing after a partial collapse at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia parking garage under construction in the city's Grays Ferry neighborhood Wednesday.—
Tom Dougherty,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The Hickman Mills School District will welcome several new faces to its school board in the coming weeks, along with a new source of partial relief to the multimillion-dollar debt plaguing the district.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The Royal Bahamas Police Force said last week that search and rescue operations had turned into search and recovery.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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The soldiers had little time to prepare; the retreat turned into a rout.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Callers told police that after a brief and seemingly hostile interaction with the occupants of the vehicle, the individual left school property and was last seen walking onto Ryan Lane from Edwards Avenue.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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From a technical standpoint, the stock appears to be stabilizing at support just as the macro backdrop becomes less hostile to large-cap technology.—
Tony Zhang,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2026
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For their part, Berman and Bryant have a reason to be prejudiced against trees, but Berman doesn’t hold a grudge after a tree crushed one of their cars on Bryant’s birthday nine years ago.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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The appellate court found that consolidating the cases prejudiced the jury.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The cameras on certain 2023-2025 Chevrolet Malibu vehicles may display blank or distorted images, posing a risk to drivers, according to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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By 1996, every band with a guitar felt the pressure to crank its amps as loud as possible, and even indie pop fans heard the clean jangle of prior years give way to the distorted crunch and Psychocandy worship of bands like Black Tambourine and Henry’s Dress.—
David Glickman,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Because the shows often featured eccentric and larger-than-life characters, Sid once told The Times that people were convinced the ideas came from using psychedelics.—
Anabel Sosa,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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But Kara Swisher isn’t convinced the technology will live up to the hype.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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DeSantis — well-aware that a state judge could toss out any new maps if there’s evidence they were drawn for a partisan purpose — has defended the state’s redistricting effort as a response to a Supreme Court case about how states comply with the Voting Rights Act.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
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Governors, lawmakers or partisan officials pushed for congressional redistricting in numerous states.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The adviser persuaded Hanes to invest a few thousand dollars in an online cryptocurrency-trading platform, which generated impressive returns.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
12 Apr. 2026
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People can be persuaded that community action should trump individual choice if a behavior, such as smoking cigarettes or driving while drunk, harms others who don’t engage in it.—
Marie Helweg-Larsen,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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