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
Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Continuous bias auditing throughout AI development helps detect and correct biased outcomes.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Ultimately the cause of these harms is the same: data that inadvertently produce biased outcomes.
—State Sen. James Maroney, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
Margaret Talbot looks at how Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction among conservatives that Wikipedia is biased against them.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Preventing claims of anti-American bias Employers should avoid words and actions favoring or disfavoring foreign workers over American workers because of national origin, whether because of customer preferences or the biased assumption that foreign workers work harder than American workers.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
Continuous bias auditing throughout AI development helps detect and correct biased outcomes.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Ultimately the cause of these harms is the same: data that inadvertently produce biased outcomes.
—State Sen. James Maroney, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
Margaret Talbot looks at how Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction among conservatives that Wikipedia is biased against them.
—Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased
Adjective
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Ukraine is planning to send technical teams to discuss the details of the partial ceasefire.—
Samya Kullab,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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Drone strikes have continued through the weekend despite last week's apparent progress toward a U.S.-brokered partial ceasefire, though Kyiv and Moscow appeared to have different understandings of what that would entail.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Andreas typically waits until there have been three instances of potential hostile communication before asking her friend or colleague if everything is OK.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Home to one of the world’s largest refugee populations – most of them from Afghanistan – Pakistan has not always welcomed the foreigners, subjecting them to hostile living conditions and threatening deportation over the years.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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More than 2,250 are recalled due to incorrectly repaired 2021-2022 Edge vehicles that may cause the rearview camera to display a blank or distorted image while in reverse, according to the NHTSA.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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In our interviews, Williams at times seemed to have a distorted understanding of what constitutes abuse.—
Ronan Farrow,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 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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Honoring Simpson with a Presidential Medal of Freedom appears to reflect President Biden’s determination to reach across the partisan aisle, presumably to narrow the ideological divide in America.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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The broad feistiness within the party exploded last week after Chuck Schumer helped Republicans pass a nakedly partisan spending plan over the objection of the majority of his fellow Democratic Senators.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
19 Mar. 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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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
Adjective
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Humans like to put things in distinctive bins, but nature is not so prejudiced.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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An Idaho judge already agreed to move the trial venue, citing media coverage of the case and concerns that the local community is prejudiced against the suspect.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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