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as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
an employer who is known to be prejudiced toward graduates from Ivy League schools
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as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
racially prejudiced people have existed throughout recorded history
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as in biased
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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Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Some of the images shared by social media users were openly prejudiced, showing Black people chasing after cats.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024
And the Reykjavik Index, which tracks global sentiment toward women leaders in business and politics, has registered a backslide for the second year in a row in all G7 countries, with the youngest cohort being more prejudiced than their parents.
—Jane Geraghty, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The fact that blacks were the most likely to believe this seems significant, considering the finding that blacks remain relatively more prejudiced against other groups.
—James L. Gibson, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2015
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But when canvassers showed interest in understanding voters and asked them to share their perspectives, voters’ prejudiced views diminished for at least four months following the conversation.
—Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
Some of the images shared by social media users were openly prejudiced, showing Black people chasing after cats.
—David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024
And the Reykjavik Index, which tracks global sentiment toward women leaders in business and politics, has registered a backslide for the second year in a row in all G7 countries, with the youngest cohort being more prejudiced than their parents.
—Jane Geraghty, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
The fact that blacks were the most likely to believe this seems significant, considering the finding that blacks remain relatively more prejudiced against other groups.
—James L. Gibson, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2015
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His father was a partial owner of a lumber company, his mother, the town clerk.Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump called for a federal investigation Tuesday into the partial collapse of a dock gangway that killed seven people during an annual cultural festival on Georgia's historic Sapelo Island.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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As a member, America has agreed not to increase tariffs on another WTO member except in specific narrow circumstances, none of which applied.Tom Campbell, Orange County Register, 26 Oct. 2024
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Lisbon began operating trams in the late 19th century to transport passengers up the steep and narrow streets criss-crossing the hilly old city.Amanda Gerut, Fortune Europe, 26 Oct. 2024
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However, over time, the courts continued to become more hostile, arguing that things are unconstitutional in legislatures and challenging them in courts was no longer advancing a progressive agenda.Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Being hostile to crypto could chip away at the U.S. dollar’s dominance as the world’s major global reserve asset.Laura Shin, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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Vance has pushed the baseless, racist claim that Haitian immigrants are eating American pets, as well as bigoted, undemocratic ideas about people without children.Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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But as civility gets ground down to a nub by increasingly racist and bigoted behavior, from Trump down, there have to be consequences for actions.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Despite the logistical advantages, there is also the fact that many emerging filmmakers want to stray away from the Western machine that has long been accused of portraying the Arab world through a biased lens.Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
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The drive for profit could lead to practices that prioritize engagement over accuracy, deepening the spread of biased or misleading content as AI systems adapt to maximize financial returns.Gerui Wang, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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How can a place be at once so cosmopolitan and so parochial?Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Uniforms were only associated with parochial and private schools until the late 1980s, but public schools began piloting them as well, allowing plaid’s influence in American classrooms to spread.Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
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Suddenly, tinkering synths enter before the distorted synths increase in speed.Lisa Kocay, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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In Agatha All Along, the infamous Agatha Harkness finds herself down and out of power after the suspicious goth Teen helps break her free from a distorted spell.Katie Campione, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
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But the Soviet system was simply too intolerant of disagreements to leave their loyalties to chance.Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
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Her experiences in a notoriously intolerant industry have led her to transform her own kitchen into a place of vulnerability and growth.J. Kenji López-Alt, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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