TENDENTIOUSNESS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

tendentiousness

noun

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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The key to passing legislation is treating all energy equally and making clear that final permits cannot be undone based on political bias on the left or the right.

— Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 9 July 2026
Why LLMs struggle with spreadsheets Part of why structured data has garnered less attention is a very human bias, argues Boris van Breugel, a senior AI researcher based in Amsterdam.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026

Definition of bias

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Federal judge Aileen Cannon dismissed a lawsuit with prejudice on Monday, July 6, after poet Kimberly Marasco sued Swift, Aaron Dessner, Republic Records and Universal Music Group in February 2025, according to documents obtained by USA TODAY.

— Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Her initial lawsuit, filed in May 2024, was dismissed with prejudice in September 2025.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2026

Definition of prejudice

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His tendency to strike out was a weakness dating to his high school days in North Texas.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Short for adversarial hallucination squatting, HalluSquatting is built on an LLM’s inherent tendency to hallucinate the resource identifiers hosted in repositories and registries.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

Definition of tendency

Noun

For instance, traditional print outlets value such tenets as balance, impartiality, gatekeeping, and prepublication verification, whereas digital products often emphasize immediacy, transparency, partiality, and postpublication correction.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
Schumer's partiality to a classic one-piece is well-documented.

— Meg Walters, InStyle, 3 Apr. 2026

Definition of partiality

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