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verb

variants or biassed
past tense of bias
as in prejudiced
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 biased
Adjective
The defense also accused the lead investigator in the case, Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, of manipulating evidence and conducting a biased investigation. Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025 This panel, called the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee but referred to as the RUC, has long been criticized as being inherently biased and promoting payment rates that undervalue primary care. Peter Sullivan, Axios, 25 Mar. 2025 Shockley's attorneys sought a new trial over concerns that the foreman was biased against him. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025 If your past hiring data is biased toward certain schools or career paths, your AI will replicate those patterns. Tigran Sloyan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for biased
Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased
Adjective
  • Brink charged in on a partial breakaway, moving to his backhand and lifting it past Johansson.
    Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Here's when a partial solar one is visible.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Home to one of the world’s largest refugee populations – most of them from Afghanistan – Pakistan has not always welcomed the foreigners, subjecting them to hostile living conditions and threatening deportation over the years.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Andreas typically waits until there have been three instances of potential hostile communication before asking her friend or colleague if everything is OK.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • These disorders are subdivided into courtship disorders, which resemble distorted components of human courtship behavior (voyeuristic disorder, exhibitionistic disorder, and frotteuristic disorder), and algolagnic disorders, which involve pain and suffering.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • These factors can all contribute to MMD symptoms, such as blind spots, distorted vision, or vision loss.101112 Risk Factors People with high (severe) myopia have the highest risk of MMD, though not everyone with high myopia will develop the condition.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 6 Apr. 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
  • The constitutional principles at stake should transcend partisan politics.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Notably, these fundamental social needs aren't partisan.
    Gillian Oakenfull, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Our publicist persuaded the New York Times to do an article on the hundredth anniversary of La Bohème and its staying power as reflected by Rent.
    Jeffrey Seller, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Convinced that sunken treasures were hidden beneath what was about to become three high-rise buildings, the amateur river detectives donned hard hats and persuaded a backhoe operator to let them onto the site.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The 28-year-old from Vineland, New Jersey, took to social media and threw a prejudiced tantrum aimed at the entire country of Mexico.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Take Stallone’s troubled Vietnam vet, Rambo, who hates prejudiced cops, duplicitous CIA agents and sadistic Soviet lieutenant colonels (not in that order).
    John DeVore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025

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“Biased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biased. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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