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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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Naicker and his team faced allegations of bias, that they were somehow part of an orchestrated plot to take down the Australians.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Becerra’s critics subscribe to “this very American bias that an immigrant only moves once to the U.S., the land of opportunity, of hope — all that mythology,” Gradilla continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

In recent U.S. races, there is also no bias by age, race or gender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

The answer is not that civil rights advocates are indifferent to racial bias in the criminal justice system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In theory, systematic funds remove the emotionality and biases of human judgment by rigorously adhering to the rules set by their models.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

I’m not going to blindly follow the adviser; after all, his judgment could be flawed and he has biases just like I have mine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Oblivious to her own biases about who Leo is and why, Mallory poses as a therapist keen on saving his life, but uses their faux sessions to mine his story for literary gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

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

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

As the son of a football coach, I’m admittedly biased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

Would I be accusing someone just because I’m biased?

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

In′terested, having an interest or concern: affected or biassed by personal considerations, self-interest, &c.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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

Yet, biassed by temperament as we may be, whether for good or for evil, such measure of freedom is ours, nevertheless, as enables us to free ourselves from its tendencies and temptations.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Each, biassed by previous irritation, accused the other in his mind of taking the shot from him.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

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

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

From Salon ● May 1, 2025

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

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

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

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

From Ellen Middletonβ€”A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

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




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