as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
my neighbor's account of how the feud got started was somewhat one-sided
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Recent Examples of one-sided
Vargas also didn’t see the arbitration clause as unusually one-sided, as, unlike in cases cited by the plaintiffs, the terms applied to both users and the NBA.
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Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
But several costly mistakes on offense rendered all of Miami’s one-sided statistics irrelevant as Brooks pointed out.
—Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
While there are plenty who will give the show a chance, the first reactions are overwhelmingly one-sided.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
With odds this one-sided, the market is hypersensitive to how the Fed frames the cut.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
And the United States has been increasingly one-sided in backing Taiwan, chipping away at previous understandings reached with Beijing on cross-strait issues.
—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
The 49ers lost 26-15 to Houston Sunday to fall to 5-3, and the game was more one-sided than the score indicated.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
In the musical sphere of the Drake-Lamar competition, Lamar’s 22 Grammy wins (to Drake’s five) and his Emmy for a Super Bowl halftime show that toyed with Drake seemingly make for a one-sided scoreboard.
—Mike Wilson, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
What looked like a possible one-sided win by one team turned into a tight victory for the other team.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025
But several costly mistakes on offense rendered all of Miami’s one-sided statistics irrelevant as Brooks pointed out.
—Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
While there are plenty who will give the show a chance, the first reactions are overwhelmingly one-sided.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
With odds this one-sided, the market is hypersensitive to how the Fed frames the cut.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 29 Oct. 2025
And the United States has been increasingly one-sided in backing Taiwan, chipping away at previous understandings reached with Beijing on cross-strait issues.
—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025
The 49ers lost 26-15 to Houston Sunday to fall to 5-3, and the game was more one-sided than the score indicated.
—Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
In the musical sphere of the Drake-Lamar competition, Lamar’s 22 Grammy wins (to Drake’s five) and his Emmy for a Super Bowl halftime show that toyed with Drake seemingly make for a one-sided scoreboard.
—Mike Wilson, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
What looked like a possible one-sided win by one team turned into a tight victory for the other team.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-sided
Adjective
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Recalculating for partial payments could take weeks, resulting in people not only having to wait but also getting less money.—
NPR,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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There will be some partial clearing in parts of eastern and southern Vermont, but increasingly windy and cool conditions are expected tonight with a transition to snow around midnight for the Adirondacks.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Heading into a hostile environment at the Rogers Centre, the Dodgers must defeat the Toronto Blue Jays in Games 6 and 7 to clinch their second-straight World Series title.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Plot details are very hazy, but the word on the street is that the story centers on a ne’er-do-well smuggler who finds himself in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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On the other hand, SPCfw is more flexible, allowing the water molecule to bend and stretch, especially when forming distorted hydrogen bonds, as seen in ice VI.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
26 Oct. 2025
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This is the first in a series of mysterious and increasingly frightening events that follow him through his childhood, all of it narrated in 'Penpal' by his adult self peering through a distorted lens of shaky, imperfect recall.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the judges were divided seven to four and didn’t break along partisan lines; Richard Taranto, appointed by President Obama, authored the dissent finding the tariffs lawful.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Nov. 2025
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But partisan gerrymandering sometimes overlaps with racial gerrymandering.—
NPR,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The top issue was inaccurate or misleading results (39%), followed by a lack of context understanding (23%), and biased or inappropriate outputs (8%).—
John Kell,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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That is on top of a social context that is strongly biased — or the parents wouldn’t be bringing their child to the therapist in the first place.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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