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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
Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 June 2025
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the nation’s anti-discrimination laws apply equally to all employees, regardless of whether those complaining of bias are white or Black, gay or straight.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Michel Martin, NPR, 5 May 2025
That, in turn, means a shorter orbital period, and so also biases us toward discovering planets that are close to their host star.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Six years after Bank of America fired him as a client, and 131 days after President Donald Trump publicly accused the bank’s chief executive of political bias, Damon Hininger got a phone call.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 June 2025
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the nation’s anti-discrimination laws apply equally to all employees, regardless of whether those complaining of bias are white or Black, gay or straight.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Verb
Bolton: One of the criticisms of Kissinger that ultimately led Gerald Ford to split the positions again and make Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser, was the Defense Department and other agencies felt that Kissinger biased decision making below the presidential level in his favor.
—Michel Martin, NPR, 5 May 2025
That, in turn, means a shorter orbital period, and so also biases us toward discovering planets that are close to their host star.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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In a notice of settlement filed last week in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, the parties agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, with each side to pay its own fees and costs.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 June 2025
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Yet, those who identify as LGBTQ — especially transgender people — are still fighting battles for the right to exist without prejudice.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
2 June 2025
Noun
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That’s the tendency, when arriving at such milestones — to celebrate the past, and the distance traveled.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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The heavy stacks of cash fit into a pattern emerging throughout the trial as prosecutors attempt to paint Combs as a man spoiled by success, able to hide a tendency for abuse and criminality through a large staff and an ever-larger fortune.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 June 2025
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Slightly bigger, at 7.4 inches measured diagonally (compared with the 7-inch Steam Deck display), the new system swaps the IPS panel for an OLED one.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
11 June 2025
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Arbuckle watched as the group marched diagonally across an intersection on Main Street.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2025
Verb
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Today, in a world still healing from a global pandemic and grappling with economic, political and climate uncertainty, the temptation to turn inward is strong.—
Kendra MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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The troop deployment is yet another extraordinary effort to quell simmering demonstrations across Los Angeles, some of which have turned violent, in protest of flash raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in recent days.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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But, actually, partiality is one of the reasons that scenarios are valuable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
27 May 2025
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Murrow worked on Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign while at CBS, excusing his partiality as moral and intellectual superiority.—
Armond White,
National Review,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In conversations about smart buildings or workplace technology, there’s often an inclination to jump to the latest tools or features.—
Swapna Sathyan,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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This is because a planet's altitude in the sky is dependent in part on the inclination of the ecliptic relative to the horizon, which shifts throughout the year due to Earth's wobbling orbit.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
31 May 2025
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As Congress has been steadily torn apart by partisanship, it’s given up lots of its power over the past half-century and no longer seems to see itself as a coequal branch of government with the executive.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
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The game, which originated in 1909, annually bills itself as an opportunity to display patriotic togetherness even in eras — like the current one — of extreme partisanship.—
Jeff Barker,
Baltimore Sun,
12 June 2025
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In an unprecedented move, our public schools handed out hundreds of thousands of devices to help more than 1 million students continue to safely learn online with their teachers and classmates.—
Dr. Mitchell Katz,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Efficient energy storage is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy, which can impact everything from grid-scale energy storage to electric vehicles and portable devices.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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