as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
the palpable and unrelenting tendentiousness that pervades her every political pronouncement
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Overcoming Challenges Despite its benefits, hyper-personalization presents challenges such as data privacy concerns, algorithmic bias and ad fatigue.—
Gunjan Paliwal,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025 -
Brodsky noted the phenomenon of input bias: Our tendency to believe that, between two presentations, the one that took more time to make is of higher quality.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Fulton's attorney filed the request for Cage's dismissal on March 7, which was granted today with prejudice, meaning Fulton cannot bring the claims against Cage again in this case, according to court documents obtained by Entertainment Weekly.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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In July 2024, a judge threw out the involuntary manslaughter case against Baldwin with prejudice after the actor's lead attorney, Alex Spiro, argued that prosecutors had concealed evidence of ammunition that may have been linked to the fatal shooting.—
Rachel Brodsky,
TIME,
11 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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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
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“Tendentiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tendentiousness. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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