bias

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But the minutes indicated that, compared to the Fed’s previous meeting in January, the ranks of officials who thought they could drop that bias had grown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“This includes meaningfully reducing capacity growth, with a downward bias until the fuel environment improves, and moving quickly to recapture higher fuel costs.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Adam Back, a prominent Bitcoin developer, said the high-profile investigation was a case of "confirmation bias" and that he is not the person known as Satoshi Nakamoto.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Their motive, she claims, was discriminatory bias and a piece of legislation she wrote that law enforcement agencies did not like.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

But because of the limitations of our eyes, we have a prejudice, a bias, toward that tiny rainbow band we call the spectrum of visible light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan