How to Use bias in a Sentence

bias

1 of 2 noun
  • Do they have a bias against women?
  • The company was accused of racial bias.
  • The decision was made without bias.
  • She showed no bias toward older clients.
  • He showed a bias toward a few workers in particular.
  • So, yeah, there might be a bias.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Bethea doesn't even try to hide his own left-wing bias.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the question will be brand bias.
    — David Ubben, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Many of us learn this bias in childhood.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The same pattern holds for bias.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • This type of bias often hides in plain sight.
    — Chris Stevens, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Oct. 2025
  • That shows the kind of bias rock critics have.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There was no reporter on the ground with bias.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There was no reporter on the ground with bias.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Even the props used in her process reveal bias.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Call this the bias plasmon, this is the bit.
    — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Questions about racial bias in sports are not new.
    — Brielle Miller, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026
  • Racial bias training hasn't worked all that well in the past.
    — Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune, 24 July 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean AI is bias-free.
    — Jeff Lazerson, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
  • The bias cut of the dress gave way to a long, flowing maxiskirt.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • And here again, the bias would tend to be toward the Democrats.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • Let the recency bias wash over you, don’t be afraid.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • One of the biggest concerns is bias.
    — Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • These changes in testing practices leave even more room for bias.
    — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • What’s my own bias in thinking about this topic?
    — Jay Sullivan, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And the best way to fight unconscious bias is to bring it to light.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Cut the baguette, on a bias, into one-inch or one-and-a-half inch slices.
    — Nancy Miller, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Was there a regional bias at play?
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
  • And so that bias is very, very hard for people in the ranks to get their heads around.
    — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 2 June 2018
  • Build for fairness and avoid hidden bias.
    — Ben Semmes, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

bias

2 of 2 verb
  • The circumstances could bias the results of the survey.
  • I don't want to bias you against the movie, but I thought the book was much better.
  • This puts the bulk of the work on the front leg and should bias the glutes more than the quads.
    — Esther Smith, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Not to be biased, but this may be our favorite gift guide of the bunch.
    — The Editors, Outside, 8 Dec. 2025
  • That way, the cost of a pair of headphones wouldn’t bias our ratings.
    — Benjamin Levin, CNN Underscored, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Human providers are biased, too, of course.
    — Craig Spencer, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Does bias in questions harm students?
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 22 June 2026
  • May be biased but someone was a star at her 4-year-old dance recital!
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 5 June 2017
  • If the data it's trained on is biased, the output will be too.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Maybe it’ll, in the crude form, it’ll be acknowledged that it was biased by it.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Might be biased but this seems unusual.
    — Emma Banks, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The question isn’t whether AI will be biased.
    — Ted Ladd, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Today, the view that the justice system is biased against blacks has grown.
    — CBS News, 29 Sep. 2017
  • This is why many half-marathon and marathon training plans heavily bias slow running.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The king, sources say, wanted to respond to make clear to Meghan that there was no ill will or bias.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Maynard admits he might be biased.
    — Keith Pandolfi, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Time-biased will last longer across time, and space-biased will just take up a lot of space but turn over quickly.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The inevitable omissions can bias the data against certain groups.
    — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • China called the measure biased against Iran.
    — Will Clark, NBC news, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The managers who were told that stereotypes are common were more biased against the women.
    — Joanne Lipman, Time, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The problem was not that journalists were biased.
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Fifty-three percent of Democrats think the bureau is not biased either way.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Our prior bullish view was driven by Fox’s asset mix which is biased to sports and news.
    — Michael Bloom, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Lembke said that advocacy could bias the results of the study.
    — al, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Just the idea that the Apple Card might be biased was enough to turn customers against it.
    — Wired, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Her father's praise, while biased, is a sentiment shared by many fans and critics.
    — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Marx also accused Brown of being biased against him.
    — Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 26 May 2026
  • Is this just about newspapers being biased in favor of adorable kids covered in dirt?
    — Moiya McTier, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these trials have also been funded by the food industry, which can bias results.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • This means knowing that AI has a purpose and a set of rules, and that it can be biased or flawed.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025

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