as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
the palpable and unrelenting tendentiousness that pervades her every political pronouncement
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Noun
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And there is also the power of confirmation bias.—
Lauren Wilson,
NBC news,
7 Jan. 2026 -
Was there a regional bias at play?—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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They were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled at a future date.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Criminal charges against Baldwin were ultimately dismissed with prejudice in 2024.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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The brewery’s ball pit is meant to be an incisive commentary on our generation’s tendency to enjoy the trappings of adulthood—such as consuming alcohol—without fully committing to the responsibilities that are supposed to come with them, such as parenthood.—
Eddie Small,
New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s economic management combines two theoretically incompatible tendencies.—
Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But, increasingly, events that should appall and unite America against violence instead fuel an intensifying partisanship.—
John Archibald,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
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Carving up Kansas City Missouri’s review of the map was based on racial and partisanship data from the 2020 presidential election.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
29 Oct. 2025
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This Sunday’s order is a matter of preference and partiality, but the top five itself seems clear.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Despite its partiality to a president’s power over independent federal agencies, the court has repeatedly suggested that the Fed is an exception.—
Jackie Calmes,
Mercury News,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Tendentiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tendentiousness. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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