prejudicing

present participle of prejudice
as in turning
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 prejudicing McIlrath said prosecutors and other investigating agencies are ethically prohibited from sharing information or making statements that could harm the fairness of legal process by influencing witnesses or prejudicing the grand jury. N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 July 2026 Kenney and co-counsel Sheryl Leung objected to the request, calling it prior restraint on speech and arguing that the prosecution has not said anything publicly that could be seen as prejudicing potential jurors. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 15 July 2026 While trying to clarify the results of the report to reporters, Ballard also referenced the strength of the state’s case against Tyler Robinson – statements the judge on Friday found risked prejudicing the jury pool. Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 26 June 2026 Whitehead emphasized that district courts possess broad discretion in managing their dockets and found that further delay would risk prejudicing the plaintiffs given the ongoing effects of the suspension and associated agency actions. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudicing
Verb
  • Chip giant Nvidia is eyeing the possibility of turning its artificial intelligence chips into Wall Street's newest asset class.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Clear terms keep care from turning into confusion later on today.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Treating chains of thought too reverently — even when their results are verifiable — could also prevent scientists from discovering even better ways of biasing LRMs toward accurate outputs.
    John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2026
  • But both studies make critical errors that undermine their conclusions, biasing their findings against detecting any benefits of early intervention.
    Marc Lipsitch, STAT, 21 July 2026
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  • Barron’s reported in mid-July that Keim tied himself to Mohamed Coulibaly, who allegedly authored a scam to cheat NFL players out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by persuading them to invest in fake Shopify stores.
    Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Explaining what the information means—and persuading people to act on it—becomes more valuable.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The callers give a code name or number, further convincing some victims that the gold bar handoff is legitimate.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Some of the largest proposals seeking chunks of Orange County’s lucrative bed tax got the final crack Wednesday at convincing a task force to advance their ideas, which combined would cost billions of dollars.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026

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“Prejudicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudicing. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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