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
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.
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Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudicing
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But surviving in absolute uncertainty, turning from somebody to nobody at the age of forty-three, and starting everything from scratch in another language, seemed an affordable price to pay compared to being paralysed with fear or having to be brave all the time.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Concrete dust clotted the air, turning the afternoon dark.—
Rania Abouzeid,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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While not feasible in all work settings, adopting a practice of removing personal information about gender and other potentially biasing characteristics can increase fair and consistent performance evaluations.—
Michelle Travis,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Influencers have become a routine part of persuading voters in local, state and national races as legacy media’s reach has waned, though there are few laws on the books regulating them.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2026
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Trump wants Xi’s help persuading Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz and come back to the bargaining table.—
Vivian Salama,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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The key for Cornyn will be convincing voters who typically don’t make it to the polls for runoffs to cast their ballot for him, Jones said.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2026
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He is accused, among other things, of defrauding many of Banco Master's 800,000 clients, including several state government pension funds, out of hundreds of millions of dollars by convincing them to make shady investments.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 May 2026
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“Prejudicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudicing. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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