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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
The tweets, which NASL argues prejudiced jurors, came after NASL was denied D2 recognition. Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 13 May 2025 Survey after survey shows that those who engage in remembrance are less likely to hold prejudiced views toward Jews and other groups, Mr. Walter says. Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2025
Verb
Earlier this month, Singapore’s High Court found Law to have breached his fiduciary duties and prejudiced the interest of creditors while navigating his company through the financial challenges stemming from the COVID pandemic. Lionel Lim, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 However in 2024 New York's highest court overturned the conviction after concluding the judge prejudiced the jury by allowing women who had made assault allegations against Weinstein that were not included in the case to testify. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for prejudiced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • There are also patchy or partial fall colors in the western part of the country, primarily in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But as midnight that day passed without a vote on a spending plan, lawmakers bought themselves some time with a stopgap funding plan to avert a partial government shutdown for a week.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But those plans can be quite narrow and ineffective for addressing flood damage.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Wide, shallow pans allow alcohol to evaporate more quickly than deep, narrow ones.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Research on ancient Egypt is largely biased toward the elite, whose spectacular tombs, monuments, and artifacts have been the dominant focus.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Israeli government has long held that the United Nations is biased against Israel and has denied violating international law.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Tampa is heading into a hostile environment against a feisty Seattle Seahawks team that matches them with a 3-1 record.
    Josh Buckhalter, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Republicans, traditionally seen as more hostile to government, are often viewed as the shutdown aggressors.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • We’ve all been cast adrift in the cognitive dissonance between the visceral seriousness of the crime and the abject flippancy of the shooter, the brutality of the shooting and the memes reacting to Kirk’s bigoted views.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Antoni, who once ran a Twitter account featuring bigoted attacks and conspiracy theories and who economists across the political spectrum say is unqualified, has suggested suspending the Bureau’s monthly job report altogether.
    Marianne Cooper, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With hundreds of Elanco employees gathered with blue confetti at the ready, Indy, a rescue shelter dog turned service-dog-in-training, performed the official ribbon cutting, or in this case ribbon biting.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
  • When her biological daughter turned 7, however, something shifted.
    Nicole Chung, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • A lot of the super distorted stuff is getting really popular.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • His band delivered distorted guitar, thumping bass and gritty percussion.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Aquila served as a parochial vicar in two parishes from 1976 to 1982 and then as pastor at Denver’s Guardian Angels Parish from 1982 to 1987.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Or if that is not parochial enough, there are some decent Carabao Cup ties on Tuesday, with Manchester United’s conquerors Grimsby Town going to Sheffield Wednesday and Crystal Palace hosting Millwall, a replay of last season’s bruising FA Cup clash.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025

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