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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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“We really want to bias towards disclosing, even if we think the behavior is no longer a problem in our current deployed models,” Chen said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

There’s also no question the Ballon d’Or voters, made up of writers from France Football and L’Equipe, alongside international soccer ambassadors, have a European bias.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Last week’s payroll numbers were stronger than expected, confirming markets’ hawkish bias for the upcoming Fed meeting,” ING senior rates strategists Benjamin Schroeder and Michiel Tukker say in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

"And we tested this in a large nationwide study using analysis methods to emulate a randomized trial and reduce some of the bias associated with observational studies," he noted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

I think we would have talked about awareness programs for gender bias, and how to teach female musicians to be more assertive in making the case for their own ability.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

One human rights concern raised in recent years is that AI can display biases against particular groups if trained on large datasets scraped from the internet which can include racist, sexist and other undesirable material.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Like our atavistic cravings for fat and sugar, many cognitive biases also may have made more sense in an earlier environment—what Mr. Jones calls “time-shifted rationality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Even if they have some of these biases, they recognize that they shouldn’t be telling the experimenter about those biases,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

But after an investor has begun to participate in the markets, he or she may have developed biases that are hard to overcome.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

“When people watch the news, they don’t intentionally filter biases out, or feel they have to argue against the expression of the newscaster,” Mullen explains.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Researchers say that skewed ratio may be self-perpetuating: Because more boys are thought to have autism, diagnostic tools are biased toward boys’ autistic traits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Also, I am kind of biased here because I am really hoping Wirtz has the season now that people expected him to have last year.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Mikaela, who was supposed to judge the round with James, recused herself because she felt she would be too biased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He was freed after his conviction was overturned on procedural grounds, with the presiding judge also later ruled to have been biased.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

And maybe I’m biased, but when my sister quoted a pop song and talked about the future, it seemed great.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

The History is defective in its lack of objectivity; Graetz’s judgments are sometimes biassed, and in particular he lacks sympathy with mysticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

Of course, one particular woman's opinion of her may very likely be biassed.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds

I have particular pleasure in quoting these words by a man of immense erudition, because he does not belong to orthodox writers, and will not therefore be thought biassed by a preconceived opinion.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

These ideas gained wide acceptance in literary circles and gradually biassed the popular taste to such an extent that learned pedants could boast, like Khalíl b.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson

It may be inaccurate, and biassed and acrid, but it presents the family circle from within by one of themselves, and no more vivid picture can exist of that strange cockatrice brood of Pitts.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

"If this person's goal, whether explicit or implicit, was in fact to understand the overall landscape of movies in this country, the algorithmic recommendation ends up seriously biasing one's understanding," the authors wrote.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025

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

The horse started off on a biasing canter, much to my amusement.

From Medoline Selwyn's Work by Hattie E. Colter

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

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

From Ellen Middletonβ€”A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

He did not," he said, "state the impression upon his own mind with the purpose of biassing theirs.

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott

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

But the truth is that, if we set aside matters of trivial import, the enormous majority of human judgments are those into which the biassing power off likes and dislikes more or less largely enters.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll




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