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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
Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
Similarly, Grok 4 may have had less emphasis on eliminating bias in its training or fewer safeguards in place to prevent such outputs.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
Ramalakshmi Murugan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Arguing that organizations like the Heartland Democracy Center, which sets up counseling groups for kids at risk of radicalization, were biased against conservatives, the administration froze grants that had been approved for anti-extremism efforts.
—Will Carless, USA Today, 18 June 2025
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Noun
The site has taken on topics such as DEI programs, transgender care and liberal bias in media and posted many pro-Israel articles.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
Similarly, Grok 4 may have had less emphasis on eliminating bias in its training or fewer safeguards in place to prevent such outputs.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
Verb
Beware The Bias Beast: Actively Combating Cognitive Traps The Pitfall: Human beings are inherently biased, which can affect data collection, analysis and interpretation, leading to misguided product decisions.
—Ramalakshmi Murugan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Arguing that organizations like the Heartland Democracy Center, which sets up counseling groups for kids at risk of radicalization, were biased against conservatives, the administration froze grants that had been approved for anti-extremism efforts.
—Will Carless, USA Today, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bias
Noun
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Warnings, repeatedly dismissed with prejudice, may eventually stop arriving.—
David V. Gioe,
Foreign Affairs,
2 July 2025
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Anti-Japanese prejudice from the war extended to any Asians.—
Jeff Suess,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The bill ultimately continues a generations-long Republican tendency to transfer wealth upward while abandoning working Americans. Davis: The wealth transfer Trump seeks is from government to taxpayers.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
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Traits shape your willingness to try new things, your perception of effort, and your comfort level in different environments—making exercise a natural outlet for expressing these tendencies, said Matthew Sacco, PhD, a sports medicine psychologist at Cleveland Clinic.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
9 July 2025
Adverb
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But pulling the unit back farther could yield a viewing rectangle that stretches 150 inches diagonally.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
1 July 2025
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The developer plans to build a new collector road, North San Marco Way, which would diagonally cross the development on the north side of Franklin Road between Black Cat and Ten Mile roads, but expects that this new road would not have been enough to generate the necessary visibility.—
Marcus Dorsey,
Idaho Statesman,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Then, as the century turned, the boys were pushed aside by rough young men.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
15 July 2025
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But the show has also increasingly thrived on the odd-couple chemistry between co-creator Downs, who plays Hollywood’s gentlest manager, and breakout star Stalter as his assistant turned partner.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
15 July 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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At a June 5 press conference, one day after the General Assembly closed the regular 2024 session, the governor gave his strongest indication to date of an inclination to seek another four-year term with Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
3 July 2025
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At the Soul Train Awards in 1997, Da Brat arrived outfitted in a similarly referential look, but her look evoked tomboy inclinations.—
Julian Randall,
Essence,
3 July 2025
Noun
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Given the polarization that has bedeviled society for the past decade, Francis Coppola’s struggle now becomes a parable for all the ways in which a filmmaker’s integrity and inspiration can be hobbled — including the deranged partisanship that hides behind today’s activist-filmmaker impulse.—
Armond White,
National Review,
4 July 2025
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Hassett in April also accused Powell of partisanship when discussing key issues.—
Sylvan Lane,
The Hill,
30 June 2025
Noun
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However, instead of removing the minerals from the water, these devices make the minerals soluble in the water.—
Timothy Dale,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Mar. 2025
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Get my picks for the best 2025 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Bias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bias. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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