1
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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2
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
Katie Campione, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
Congressional Hearing: Republicans laced into PBS and NPR, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery hearing.
—Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Shai’s advanced stats are biased positively by OKC’s record.
—Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
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Noun
So this story felt like a unique way to explore these questions of bias in a way that hadn’t been done before.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
Congressional Hearing: Republicans laced into PBS and NPR, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery hearing.
—Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
On the one hand, Collins calls McCay out for missing signs of Paula’s infection and giving the patient a less-than-thorough exam because she may have been biased due to Paula’s weight.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Shai’s advanced stats are biased positively by OKC’s record.
—Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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In his ruling, the judge criticized the DOJ’s request to dismiss the case without prejudice, which would have allowed for future prosecution, CNBC reports.—
ESSENCE Editors,
Essence,
3 Apr. 2025
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Judge Dale Ho dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be revived.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Understanding Home Bias As mentioned before, home bias is the tendency to over-invest in your home country.—
Cicely Jones,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of the Ice Age.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
4 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Only two bodies remain still: Ferran’s, in one corner of the platform, and that of a young man (Jabez Sykes) diagonally across from her, tall and willowy and pale — two statues that seem moonlit while the rest of the world writhes and sweats around them.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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Oblique fracture: The break slants diagonally across the bone.—
Maggie Aime, MSN,
Health,
25 Dec. 2024
Verb
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An elegant ode to functionality, the studio installed a curtain rail around a daybed, allowing the space to be turned into an impromptu extra guest room.—
María Noval-Quílez,
Architectural Digest,
30 Mar. 2025
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The pair was involved in a heated altercation that reportedly turned physical before paramedics arrived on the scene, according to TMZ.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In fact, the handbag was invented, experimented with and refined before women received pocket partiality.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
17 Feb. 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
Noun
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To be sure, grounding our understanding of racial equality in reality will not be enough, but there are some inclinations of hope.—
Michael W. Kraus,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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Jodie Turner-Smith proves again that her style inclinations are always on point.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Like in the United Kingdom and Germany, young voters are disproportionately likely to be dissatisfied with mainstream parties and their partisanship is dramatically weaker.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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The power of ethics committees to investigate and bring censure or expulsion measures to the floor is significant, but recent use has been rare and, in some cases, motivated by partisanship.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Some services will pay you even if your devices are not working.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
26 Dec. 2024
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The combination of IoT and AI enables connected devices to collect, analyze and act on data in real-time.—
Rahul Saluja,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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