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bias

[bahy-uhs] / ˈbaɪ əs /


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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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

The board will apparently act as a sort of ombudsman that will arbitrate disputes between employees and management regarding “alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

Both those approaches lead to sloppiness and unintentional bias.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Behavioral biases can tug investors in the direction of either panicking and holding on following a plunge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

This is because public data used to train many AI systems can reflect existing societal biases such as sexism or racism.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But all inevitably carry their own biases, and none have the intimate understanding, sustained commitment or enduring responsibility that parents have for their children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The researchers found significant variability in the advice and spotted some potential demographic biases.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

In theory, peremptory strikes may increase the fairness of the proceeding by eliminating jurors who may be biased but whose biases cannot be demonstrated convincingly to a judge.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

His defence team has pointed to missing police reports, disputed evidence and "biased, sloppy and incomplete" detective work.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

Propaganda uses misleading, biased, or exaggerated information to promote a political cause.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

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

As minds are differently biassed, this fact will be differently judged.

From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

The same spirit, biassed by sentiment not ruled by reason, has remained since more has been disclosed of the real nature of this Codex208.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

Christina thinks you're so anxious not to favour him because he's your nephew that you are positively biassed against him.

From Caesar's Wife A comedy in three acts by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

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

No one knew better or more dreaded the risk of biasing opinion by over or under-statements concerning the conspicuous persons of whom he wrote.

From Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D. by Brantz Mayer

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

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

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

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

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton




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