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verb

past tense of prejudice
as in biased
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting

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Recent Examples of prejudiced
Adjective
America’s seeming inability to escape the pull of Vietnam’s symbolic weight shifts the focus away from the issues at hand by invoking the distant world of Vietnam-era America in which criticisms of misguided foreign military intervention or prejudiced domestic policies can be safely contained. Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025 The prejudiced perp took off on foot in an unknown direction. Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025 This feature empowers users to opt into generating free and fair content, minimizing prejudiced outcomes and promoting inclusivity. Antara Dave, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025 Although campuses witnessed a spike in antisemitic incidents after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, people who attend universities are significantly less prejudiced against Jews than the overall population is. Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for prejudiced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • Harden, similarly, has only a partial guarantee for his second season (which is a player option).
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 9 July 2025
  • That might mean comparing your contract to thousands of others in your industry, identifying subtle overcharges and then engaging the vendor directly to secure a partial refund or a more competitive rate.
    Eric Steele, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • In more challenging games, however, the side often flatters to deceive and occasionally slips up, as a narrow 2-1 victory over Boca Juniors and 0-1 loss to Benfica showed.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Nothing dramatizes the human comedy with more precision than the sound of a happily narrow mind retorting to the wider environment.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Guzman’s book was used as a common reader by several universities in 2024, reflecting ongoing concerns about the often hostile, partisan gaps that have roiled many campuses in recent years.
    Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • In the five years since the events of Jurassic World Dominion, many of the dinosaurs and other formerly extinct creatures that were set free into the world have died off, unable to survive in the modern climate and otherwise hostile environments.
    Maureen Lee Lenker Published, EW.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Only the Ku Klux Klan could enjoy such bigoted and nonsensical statements.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • This concern over harmful or bigoted speech is not new.
    Jacob Mchangama, The Conversation, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • The new instructions tell it to assume some media information is biased.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 July 2025
  • The case of Amazon’s AI recruiting tool, which was found to disadvantage female applicants due to biased training data, remains a cautionary example.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
  • In his quest for a definitive biography of Joyce as a cosmopolitan artist, above the parochial fray, Ellmann downplayed Joyce’s interest in politics.
    Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Humans are better than computers at deciphering letters and words; early CAPTCHAs displayed an image of distorted text, which the viewer had to type correctly to proceed.
    Alan Burdick, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • For me, balancing family and the creative lifestyle and more, time is definitely about distorted moments.
    Roberta Naas, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025

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