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bias

[bahy-uhs] / ˈbaΙͺ Ι™s /


NOUN
diagonal weave of fabric
Synonyms
VERB
cause to favor
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
be fair be impartial be just


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Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says critics who accuse the team of bias against George Russell are "brainless".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Becerra’s critics subscribe to “this very American bias that an immigrant only moves once to the U.S., the land of opportunity, of hope — all that mythology,” Gradilla continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The researchers also note that food frequency questionnaires rely on participants accurately remembering what they ate, which can introduce recall bias.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Wall Street analysts are often accused of having a bullish bias, but their ratings for hard-hit stocks can sometimes offer a helpful starting point.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Most striking, perhaps, is the overwhelming evidence that implicit bias measures are disassociated from explicit bias measures.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In theory, systematic funds remove the emotionality and biases of human judgment by rigorously adhering to the rules set by their models.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Another area pupils will be taught is AI's biases towards certain norms because of the information it is trained on.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

But nonprofit monitors come with their own biases and business ties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

“My biases. What about your biases? What about thinking everyone who hates your father as much as you do is an ally?”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

However, those associations have generally been modest, and scientists have not been sure whether biased attention contributes to depression or develops because of it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

As a former Norwich striker I often get accused of being biased against Ipswich, but I am not being overly negative about them here.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

“The Department takes allegations of discriminatory or biased conduct seriously,” the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The experts I spoke with offered guidance on how to tell if your therapist is giving biased advice and what to do about it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

Would I be accusing someone just because I’m biased?

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

In a question of this kind the mind is perhaps unconsciously biassed by comparing one antiquarian idea with another.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman

Travellers and missionaries have begun to read anthropological books, and their evidence is therefore much more likely to be biassed now by anthropological theories than it was of old.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

I could not have been biassed an instant by those who know not how to appreciate her.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Above all, the critic should be impartial, and by no means allow himself to be biassed by either prejudice or prepossession, whether personal or political.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Nor for every defect in faithfulness, through ignorance, want of courage, misinformation, or being biassed with affection for particular persons.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

That smaller sample means certain demographic groups may be over- or under-covered, biasing the total estimates.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

While not all participants had pets of their own, their fondness for animals likely motivated their willingness to participate in the experiment, potentially biasing the results.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024

Bullard said it's not just inflation biasing the Fed toward more action.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

Generated text can be watermarked by secretly tagging a subset of words and then biasing the selection of a word to be a synonymous tagged word.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2023

There was one rule, or rather the absence of it, which had appealed very strongly to Mrs. Harold and gone a long way toward biasing her choice in favor of the school.

From Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

The subject is one of immense importance, and especially in this country, where it can seldom be discussed without adventitious circumstances biassing the inquirers.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

There would be no harm in biassing me in her favour.

From Ellen Middletonβ€”A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

Still the attitude created by the Tubingen theory largely persists as a biassing element in much that is written about Acts.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

However, this is beside the question; and I want to avoid biassing your decision in any way.

From Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea by William Heysham Overend

Even if he was going to revise his views, was it right, was it candid, was it loyal to the truth, that he should revise them under the biassing influence of Meenie's eyes?

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen




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