as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
in my admittedly biased opinion, my wife is always the prettiest woman in whatever room she graces
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or biassed
as in prejudiced
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 biased
Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
His legal team got Maricopa County Judge Bruce Cohen kicked off the case last month after the surfacing of politically biased emails Cohen authored.
Reach the reporter at rstern@arizonarepublic.com or 480-276-3237.
—Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
Some other cities’ night mayors have gone even further, removing enforcement duties from police officers, who often lack equipment to measure sound levels and can end up enforcing noise complaints in subjective and often racially biased ways.
—Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
For example, the risk of data mismanagement or the generation of biased outputs can have far-reaching consequences.
—Nitesh Mirchandani, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The crucial difference, of course, is that BLM protestors, including violent ones, are favored by the progressive Left legal establishment and Biden's heavily biased Justice Department, while Trump supporters, even when non-violent, are not.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
His legal team got Maricopa County Judge Bruce Cohen kicked off the case last month after the surfacing of politically biased emails Cohen authored.
Reach the reporter at rstern@arizonarepublic.com or 480-276-3237.
—Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
Some other cities’ night mayors have gone even further, removing enforcement duties from police officers, who often lack equipment to measure sound levels and can end up enforcing noise complaints in subjective and often racially biased ways.
—Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
For example, the risk of data mismanagement or the generation of biased outputs can have far-reaching consequences.
—Nitesh Mirchandani, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased
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Ode to Lucy’s Pelvis Adrienne Gruber O wondrous one, your bipedal swag, terrestrial locomotion, partial appendages revealed, brain a soft sponge, size of an acorn, still waiting for that growth spurt 3.2 million years later.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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TikTok has confronted legal and political scrutiny around the world in recent years, facing outright or partial bans in at least 20 countries, as governments have grown alarmed by its ties to China and its wide influence, especially among young people.Meaghan Tobin, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Both saw themselves as outsiders in a hostile environment.Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Aber’s book is successful in showing that self-hatred is the fruit not of a few particular traumas but rather of a hostile environment’s erosive drip on the psyche.Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
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The track is a nearly motionless waltz, with dark ambient stirrings of distorted guitar, wafting toward relief or death.Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and President-elect Donald Trump often presented distorted views of the health of the labor market, with the Democratic angle largely focusing solely on headline labor market growth and Trump mischaracterizing the gains solely as a pandemic rebound.Derek Saul, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
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To dismiss concerns about it as some kind of partisan obsession.Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2025
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The winner of the race will determine partisan control of the county's five-member board, and represent the South County area while weighing in on spending for the county's $8 billion budget.Andrew Keatts, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
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Ivana persuaded him to drop his matching plum-colored suits and shoes back in the late ‘70s.Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Borges also persuaded the detective ultimately responsible for Muller’s arrest, Misty Carausu, to come.Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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The sudden shift flummoxed the music industry, which had inherited a profoundly prejudiced business structure from the totalizing predation of Jim Crow.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Olivet President Jonathan Park and Vice President Walker Tzeng said that the probe was racially and religiously prejudiced and was prompted by news reports from Newsweek, which university leaders claimed to be inaccurate.Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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