as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
the obvious one-sidedness of the host means that his radio talk show isn't the open forum that he pretends it is
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Address ethics, bias and compliance early.—
David Henkin,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025 -
Job candidates with names that sound smooth and soft may have a surprising edge in the hiring process, according to a new study that explored how sound symbolism leads to hiring biases.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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During a hospital stay, Roy’s enfeebled mother fixates on the caste and religious affiliations of the doctors treating her—the sort of thing that will be familiar to anyone who has cringed at a diminished elder’s unfiltered prejudices.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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From hiring algorithms that penalize women to facial recognition systems that misidentify people of color, AI is at risk of replicating—and even amplifying—our worst human prejudices.—
Sagar Gupta,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The film looks at the key role of political cartoons in global democracies, the decline of the profession amid a newspaper industry meltdown and the effects of extreme political partisanship on media and editorial cartooning.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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In a statement to CNN, Andrew Nixon, Director of Communications for HHS, said the states moves away from CDC guidance were based on partisanship, rather than science.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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From genetic junk to evolutionary driver Despite their chaotic tendencies, LINE-1 elements have made significant contributions to reshaping the human genome.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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The Industry Still Lags Behind The Problem There’s a tendency across the digital ad ecosystem to interpret fatigue as a creative failure, a cue to refresh imagery or test new messaging.—
Sergii Denysenko,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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