as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
since taking a ply to French burgundies, he's hardly even looked at anything else in the wine store
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as in to weave
to cause to twine about one another
two single yarns were plied together to get the fabric that smooth, firm feel
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Recent Examples of ply
New Atlas, 17 July 2025
Shutters or reinforcing with ply board can be used to block flying debris, which is the leading cause of structural breaches, these help prevent extensive damage and costly repairs.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
That’s Step 7 of the English football pyramid, with Acle plying their trade in a regional feeder league.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
After training in virtual spaces, the team erected two ply boards to form three sets of walls, each with a different gap width between them – 800, 900 and 1,000 mm.
—New Atlas, 17 July 2025
Shutters or reinforcing with ply board can be used to block flying debris, which is the leading cause of structural breaches, these help prevent extensive damage and costly repairs.
—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Verb
Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Hill Architecture is the main designer for this project – the same genius who plied his trade to design the Burj Khalifa.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
That’s Step 7 of the English football pyramid, with Acle plying their trade in a regional feeder league.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
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East Coast bias accusations may come in here, and Aaron Judge will promptly swat them 400 feet.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Health insurers have argued that AI eliminates human error and bias and will save the health care system money.—
Lauren Sausser,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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One of the issues Bayandir had had this season is his tendency to not parry the ball to the sides.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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However, leaders can have a tendency to try to optimize inefficient processes with shiny new tech instead of questioning their existence.—
Mike Hoffman,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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When Atsu was first revealed as the game’s protagonist, reactionaries jumped to disavow the sequel, citing bad-faith reasoning that failed to hide their prejudices.—
Alyssa Mercante,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
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The motion was filed without prejudice, meaning DHS could choose to pursue Hernandez’s removal in the future.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacbee.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Ply.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ply. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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