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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
Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
The group has filed numerous challenges against colleges across the country that leverage bias response teams, which solicit anonymous reports of bias and sometimes refer students for discipline.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 3 Mar. 2025
Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling echo the FOP’s false claims that COPA is biased against police and that police transparency and accountability endanger public safety and destroy police morale.
—Amber Hunter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The plaintiffs argued that the move threatens their safety and stability and is rooted in racial bias.
—Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
The group has filed numerous challenges against colleges across the country that leverage bias response teams, which solicit anonymous reports of bias and sometimes refer students for discipline.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
Zuckerberg didn’t explain why people who live in Texas would be less prone to bias than those who live in California, but that was perhaps besides the point.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling echo the FOP’s false claims that COPA is biased against police and that police transparency and accountability endanger public safety and destroy police morale.
—Amber Hunter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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Adopt a zero-tolerance approach: Document every incident thoroughly with legal experts and witnesses, distinguishing valid concerns from smear campaigns, false claims or prejudice.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The premium crime show mixes whodunnits with explorations of social issues, including class differences, prejudices, workplace dynamics, and identity.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Beyond The Basics Successful investing requires mastering behavioral tendencies, and effective retirement planning demands a clear view of your financial reality.—
Wayne Anderman,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Playing in a defense requires knowing the scheme, understanding how to react to opponents’ tendencies and teammates’ on-the-fly decisions and making game plan specific adjustments.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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The pickup truck leading them parks diagonally and obstructs oncoming vehicles.—
Alfredo Sosa,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Jan. 2025
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They’re hidden horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backward.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The event’s third iteration is set to run from January to April 2026 at the JAX District, an industrial site turned arts complex in the historic town of Diriyah, near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
6 Mar. 2025
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If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
6 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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This told them that all coral structures take their shape from individual polyps’ microscopic inclinations.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Feb. 2025
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His geopolitical inclinations have not changed, and his antidemocratic tendencies have only gotten worse.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Latino politicians, ironically, have matured to the point of being like other politicians: more focused on power and partisanship than on solving the problems of a community that has been clear about its priorities for decades.—
Mike Madrid,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Trump administration’s purges are, in one way, fulfillments of long-standing political projects: the old aims of small-government conservatism, updated for the age of slash-and-burn partisanship.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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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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Health insurers, too, are increasingly paying to address social determinants of health beyond hospitalizations, physician services, prescription drugs and medical devices.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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