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Under former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, for instance, bond markets tended to be more reactive to his press conferences rather than the policy bias from statements by the Federal Open Market Committee.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

The central bank is expected to leave the official cash rate unchanged at 4.35% while retaining a bias toward further tightening, as inflation remains above target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

She argued it is difficult to determine whether there is bias because "there is a lack of regulation globally that requires providers to show how their tools work".

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

"There's a lot of bias that goes into that two cents," Weber said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

As we have seen, to establish an equal-protection violation, one must prove intentional discrimination—conscious racial bias.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

One of its core biases is that value stocks outperform growth stocks, which of course they haven’t for over a decade.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

The new study is the first to examine how depressive symptoms and attention biases may influence one another over time in children.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

As a Kiwi, I'm biased - but clearly Liam Lawson's been performing at Racing Bulls so far this year, and he's currently 'best of the rest' in the driver standings.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

I’m definitely biased, but you’re moving to the best city in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Risks to the inflation forecast remain biased to the upside, the central bank said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

My Lewis always says that my figure is exactly right, but I dare say he's biassed.

From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield

I should make a statistical inquiry among school-children, before their pristine wisdom had been biassed by teachers.

From The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll by Various

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

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

I venture to think that no painter, however modern, and no critic, however biassed, could stand in front of that little portrait head in the Tate Gallery and honestly refrain from admiration and respect.

From John Pettie, R.A., H.R.S.A. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work by Martin Hardie

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

But he told Reuters in an interview that the economy is biasing the central bank in that direction.

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

In a 2020 study, epidemiologist Reem Masarwa, then a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in Montreal, and colleagues explored whether confounding factors such as heredity and maternal illness could be biasing acetaminophen research.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2023

Scientists who have internalized this concern may be subconsciously biasing their models to be unrealistically conservative.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2022

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

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

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

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

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 Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton