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as in bias
an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities
partisanship can discourage any serious search for the truth
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as in bigotry
stubborn or intolerant adherence to one's opinions or prejudices
there's a pervasive partisanship in the company that prevents it from acknowledging that other companies are outpacing it with innovative ideas
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Recent Examples of partisanship
At the heart of his coalition-building is a belief that virulent partisanship is a messaging issue more than a political one.
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Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
Kousser, the politics professor, noted that this is not the first time that concerns about partisanship within the Justice Department have been voiced.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Avoiding partisanship – but not laughter But despite her passion for work, Keane found time to enjoy the Capitol’s lighter moments.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
Unfortunately, hyper-partisanship rather than truth-seeking has become the new norm in our state and national governments.
—Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
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Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
Kousser, the politics professor, noted that this is not the first time that concerns about partisanship within the Justice Department have been voiced.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Avoiding partisanship – but not laughter But despite her passion for work, Keane found time to enjoy the Capitol’s lighter moments.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
Unfortunately, hyper-partisanship rather than truth-seeking has become the new norm in our state and national governments.
—Gwen Faulkenberry, Arkansas Online, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for partisanship
Noun
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In the current atmosphere, where so many have been conditioned to believe that the news media is a liberal wasteland, confirmation bias helps with the heavy lifting.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Such strategies use a complex mix of statistical models, machine-learning algorithms, factors and other quantitative signals to identify — and bet on — upward and downward moves in markets, removing human emotion and biases from the investment process.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
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Nobody would have been surprised to hear Bad Bunny use one of the year’s biggest stages to levy direct condemnation of the administration’s dehumanizing bigotry.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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Sure, the demeaning bigotry cannot be ignored, and the post was just after armed federal agents burst into a hotel room to arrest the unarmed Black journalist Don Lemon, and the National Park Service removed a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
7 Feb. 2026
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Along the way, Daisy and Hoke each will confront, acknowledge and, in a way, overcome their own often-unthinking prejudice.—
Oline Cogdill,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Feb. 2026
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Pope Leo marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a forceful plea for a world free of antisemitism, prejudice, and persecution.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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And many folks thought that that was a type of dogmatism and inflexibility that was not productive.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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That — metaphorically and literally — is earned dogmatism, the risk that expertise breeds rigidity in our thinking and decision-making.—
Tim Maurer,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Even after homosexuality was decriminalized in the post-Soviet country at the turn of the century, intolerance has been commonplace.—
Ryan Oehrli
Updated February 6,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2026
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Nelson initially claimed to investigators that her son suffered from a rare bone disease, lactose intolerance and bulimia.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
31 Jan. 2026
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Ellison’s public stance has fueled concerns that Micko’s decision creates, at minimum, the appearance of partiality in a case where the state’s top law enforcement official, who appears to employ the judge’s wife, had already weighed in on the central legal question.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Jan. 2026
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This Sunday’s order is a matter of preference and partiality, but the top five itself seems clear.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Orban and Putin once shared a close working relationship, grounded in energy deals and mutual illiberalism.—
NIC CHEESEMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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Space warfare, cyber defense, mass migration, corruption, and illiberalism require fluency, adaptability, empathy, and collaboration.—
Loree Sutton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Partisanship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partisanship. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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