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 proposal would mandate harsher penalties for crimes motivated by political bias, including some misdemeanors.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
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But don’t let recency bias drag you into a pit of despair.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
2 Mar. 2026
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But in the early days, the community had to overcome outside prejudice and fear (BBC).—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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Federal prosecutors later dropped the charges filed against her with prejudice.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC news,
3 Mar. 2026
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Kahn studies automation bias, the tendency of human operators to overdelegate to machines.—
Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2026
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Tactics are often cyclical and repeated over time, but the current tendency is very much towards the former.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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From start to finish, ugly hyper-partisanship was on full display.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Feb. 2026
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The polls served as a point of reference for journalists and tracked data on partisanship and other rapid public opinion moves during a president's term, USA TODAY reported.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Ellison’s public stance has fueled concerns that Micko’s decision creates, at minimum, the appearance of partiality in a case where the state’s top law enforcement official, who appears to employ the judge’s wife, had already weighed in on the central legal question.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Jan. 2026
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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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“Tendentiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tendentiousness. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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