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
Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Pigs will fly before the EEOC returns to conduct another investigation, though any current effort would most likely turn accusations of bias on their head and consider how men have been systematically disadvantaged, employment statistics be damned.
—Martha Lauzen, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Human providers are biased, too, of course.
—Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Mills and Stockey think the extraordinarily high temperatures reached in Tierney’s reconstructions could reflect subtle biases in some of the proxies that skew hot.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Pigs will fly before the EEOC returns to conduct another investigation, though any current effort would most likely turn accusations of bias on their head and consider how men have been systematically disadvantaged, employment statistics be damned.
—Martha Lauzen, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
Her father's praise, while biased, is a sentiment shared by many fans and critics.
—Andrew Ravens, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Human providers are biased, too, of course.
—Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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With any luck, it will someday be reversed, like other famous examples of Supreme Court decisions that reflected prejudice against African-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and others.—
Noah Feldman,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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This sensual, swoon-worthy drama dares to imagine love thriving where prejudice prevails.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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While bad tendencies showed up in each loss enough good things seemed to appear in the wins.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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That approach stems from a tendency to question the foundations upon which conventional wisdom is built.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Gilbert and her volunteer group had already planted dozens of trees in just a couple of hours, moving diagonally across a open, grassy field surrounded by ponderosa pines.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Epson specs the lens as suitable for 16:9 screens ranging from 80 inches diagonally (at less than an inch from the screen) to 150 inches (from 9.9 inches away).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Aug. 2025
Verb
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He was arrested following a 33-hour manhunt after his parents recognized surveillance images of the suspect released by police and convinced him, with the help of a family friend, to turn himself in.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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Also, the tensions between Asuka, Kairi Sane, and Iyo could result in the latter turning heel on Vaquer during or after the match for the vacant WWE Women’s World Championship.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Despite its partiality to a president’s power over independent federal agencies, the court has repeatedly suggested that the Fed is an exception.—
Jackie Calmes,
Mercury News,
30 Aug. 2025
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But, actually, partiality is one of the reasons that scenarios are valuable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
Noun
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For those with time and inclination, the New York Times did an exhaustive deep dive into court battle based on thousands of pages of court filings and hearing transcripts.—
Howard Homonoff,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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No other player has a similar inclination to hold width.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Our hearts go out to his family, but this should not have become a springboard for hysteria, partisanship, and meltdown.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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Trust in public institutions, which are meant to facilitate responsiveness, has plunged as partisanship persists.—
Alex Rosado,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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New downloads of Weather are no longer possible on Wear OS 6 devices from third-party manufacturers, such as Samsung, OnePlus and others.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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Why Healthcare Needs a Data Overhaul Healthcare systems are generating more data than ever before, from electronic health records and lab results to imaging scans, insurance claims, and even patient updates from wearable devices.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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