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as in prejudice
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
he has a powerful bias towards sentimentality, which comes through even in his grittier stories
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as in tendency
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
from her youth she revealed a strong bias toward a life of the mind
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as in diagonally
in a line or direction running from corner to corner
made of fabric cut bias
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as in to turn
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge
bad reviews biased her against the movie, even though it starred one of her favorite actors
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Recent Examples of bias
Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 May 2025
But personal bias aside, Light Blue makes a perfect summer scent with notes of lime and cedar.
—Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 28 May 2025
Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 3 May 2025
The Risk Of Bias Amplification AI training models depend on data, and if they are trained on biased data, then their outputs will also be biased.
—Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Tasked with overcoming funding gaps, racial and gender bias, and the pressure to succeed at all costs, many are navigating what feels like a relentless grind.
—Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 May 2025
But personal bias aside, Light Blue makes a perfect summer scent with notes of lime and cedar.
—Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 28 May 2025
Verb
The Trump administration has labeled multiple institutions in academia and the media industry — from Harvard and Columbia universities to NPR and PBS — as being leftist, Marxist, biased, and woke, and threatened funding cuts.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 3 May 2025
The Risk Of Bias Amplification AI training models depend on data, and if they are trained on biased data, then their outputs will also be biased.
—Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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In a notice of settlement filed last week in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, with each side to pay its own fees and costs.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2025
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Yet, those who identify as LGBTQ — especially transgender people — are still fighting battles for the right to exist without prejudice.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
2 June 2025
Noun
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As the graph shows below, Bellingham, like most of Real Madrid midfielders, has a tendency to hold on to the ball, whereas Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen midfield is defined by quick and incisive short passes.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Though moderators control questioning during such forums, too, candidates have a tendency to end up chiming in on each other’s answers when seated next to each other.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
20 May 2025
Adverb
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Arbuckle watched as the group marched diagonally across an intersection on Main Street.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
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Following complaints about drivers parking diagonally at a curb beside Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, the city of San Diego bumped up its schedule to paint the section of curb red to keep people from parking there.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
Verb
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At Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri worked to turn a legacy house into a home.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
29 May 2025
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The model, who turns 18 on May 29, 2025, made her runway debut in 2023 Comments Zaya Wade is one stylish teenager!—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
29 May 2025
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Murrow worked on Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign while at CBS, excusing his partiality as moral and intellectual superiority.—
Armond White,
National Review,
30 Apr. 2025
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So, Hunt’s partiality for turtlenecks has now become the official look for player headshots over the past two decades.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, the Bank of Japan’s inclination to tighten its monetary policy, which collides with the Asian nation’s fiscal woes, also have a hand in fueling the bond sell-off, said Varathan.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
22 May 2025
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But state officials have shown no inclination toward making alterations. California earlier this month joined a multi-state lawsuit challenging the Federal Highway Administration and the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars to expand electric vehicle infrastructure.—
Rob Nikolewski,
Mercury News,
21 May 2025
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That level of partisanship in a military setting – on the campus of the nation’s first military academy, and before an audience of cadets and their families, many of whom are veterans – is unusual in the United States.—
Jeff Inglis,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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There are ways to get involved and passionately advocate for your mission without embracing the rancor and extreme partisanship many leaders rightly try to avoid.—
Jerry Haag,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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However, these incidents underscore the importance of regularly updating your devices to stay protected against evolving threats.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Get my picks for the best 2025 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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