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verb

past tense of prejudice
as in biased
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting

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Recent Examples of prejudiced
Adjective
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, founded by Kraft, says 10% of U.S. adult males are blatantly prejudiced against Jewish people and tend to be outspoken about it. Jessica Golden, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024 Certainly, many a prejudiced lender can hide behind this data black hole, but some more positive trends are also obscured. Michael Del Castillo, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024 In essence, bias occurs when an algorithm systematically produces unfair or prejudiced outcomes. Vasyl Rakivnenko, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 This idea that Democrats are retrograde and prejudiced has been pervasive here, not just in Junior’s speech. Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for prejudiced 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • If Vonn’s implant does loosen, doctors can fix it, with either another partial or full knee replacement.
    Peggy Shinn, Outside Online, 31 Jan. 2025
  • That led to the federal judge’s temporary, partial block of the plans to freeze aid.
    Karina Tsui, CNN, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • These distinctive heels, characterized by a narrow base at the foot that widens toward the bottom, offer a bold and retro-inspired silhouette.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Nissan’s profits in the six months ending in September plunged 94% compared with the same period in 2023, as the company lost money on auto operations and reported only a narrow profit due to its financing business.
    Olesya Dmitracova and Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, she was hounded out of the classroom by authorities hostile to Western literature.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Last year, Trump's predecessor Joe Biden fired the inspector general of the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, after an investigation found the official had created a hostile work environment.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Religious groups and some Republican politicians, including Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, defended his right to his opinion and others slammed his comments as bigoted and anti-gay.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The lawsuit also says the financial impact statement prepared by the Division of Financial Management is biased and full of confusing legal jargon.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Pre-training bias happens when a model is trained on biased or incomplete data.
    Zeyi Yang, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This may seem like an impossible task in a world where politics is becoming more divisive, foreign policy more parochial, and social media bubbles more impenetrable.
    Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
  • For more than a century, religious education had been deeply entrenched in the state; in Cleveland, the parochial system was one of the largest in the country.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Her sound has exploded into a kind of psychedelic opera, first spawning from emo rap, then eventually evolving into distorted electropop.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The house itself is an architectural anomaly, the distorted vision of a distorted mind.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025

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