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“They possess this hidden skill that we’re overlooking from this bias against them,” said Scott Bentley, an assistant professor of human-resource management at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations who co-wrote the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Researchers additionally performed sensitivity analyses to assess attrition bias.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

“We’ve got to allow ourselves to build outwards, not just upwards, and we’ve got to end the bias against single family homes,” Hilton said at a March forum hosted by the California Assn. of Realtors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“Don’t trouble yourself to give her a character,” returned Mr. Rochester: “eulogiums will not bias me; I shall judge for myself. She began by felling my horse.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Users of Chinese open-source models can tweak the models to bypass most censorship, though some say they can’t fully undo the influence of biases built into the training data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The aim was to assess how their biases were affected by scene-by-scene content analysis of the racial representation of 29 popular kids shows and movies.

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

He could not help but be infected by the same biases.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

“They have set up a system where it’s virtually impossible to sustain a biased policing complaint against an officer,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

"Having visited all four Grand Slams, I might be biased, but Wimbledon is truly in a league of its own," Jacqueline adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Justice Department and several of the nation’s leading foundations, published in 2007, found that the impact of the biased treatment is magnified with each additional step into the criminal justice system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

The public at large is generally just, because too enormous to be individually canvassed; but private circles are almost universally biassed by partial or prejudiced influence.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Uninfluenced, un-in′flōō-enst, adj. not subject to, or acted upon by, influence: not biassed or prejudiced.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Then she returned to England, virulent against her brother William, 'whose kindness to her,' says Horace Walpole, no biassed witness, 'has been excessive.

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

He was not one to be biassed by personal feelings or beguiled by fair appearances, in the face of stubborn, unaccountable facts.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

"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

Much of the research in nutrition is funded by industry, which has been criticized for biasing the results.

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

It’s a cool observation, Turner says, although more work needs to be done to ensure that the Apollo 15 site isn’t biasing the results.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 20, 2024

Some economists viewed this increase as an anomaly given that the sector accounted for about 16% of total employment and speculated that a low response rate could be biasing the numbers higher.

From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 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

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

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

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

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

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton