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

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

“Despite a recent 25% pullback from highs, the seasonal chart suggests a bullish bias for the next several months,” they say.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

And it has categorically dismissed what it called “unfounded allegations” of bias from its officials.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

One of the biggest challenges is sampling bias because animals actively guarding eggs are much easier to notice and photograph than species that provide no parental care.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Let me give you another example of how color bias can be changed—and this one is racial in nature.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper

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

"Between attentional biases and depressive symptoms, we looked at the way that they were mutually predicting one another across the time points, which is especially novel and hasn't been done before."

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

Ottawa has plans to update the laws and standards regarding privacy rights, ensure safeguards for children’s online activities and protect vulnerable groups from online violence and algorithmic biases.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Decades of cognitive bias research demonstrates that both unconscious and conscious biases lead to discriminatory actions, even when an individual does not want to discriminate.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

He put this partially down to the first two weeks of the period tending to correlate with Wall Street two-year projections – which are biased lower.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Instead, such episodes seemed to reinforce his perception that he was climbing a mountain alone, battling institutions that were already biased against raw milk before hearing his case.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

"I might be biased saying this, but it definitely deserved to win," said the church's Reverend Kim Williams.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

Shouldn’t the focus be on improving ourselves, rather than challenging a biased system?

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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 Lindley, Augustus F.

It has always been undertaken with some special practical problem in view, and is consequently always fragmentary and frequently biassed.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

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

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

Yet the man might be biassed; sympathy for the deceived might paint the deceiver's conduct in colours even blacker than the truth demanded.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

That Mr. Wallace himself should be biassed in this matter might, perhaps, be expected.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

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

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

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

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

From Scientific American Nov. 17, 2022

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

From Medoline Selwyn's Work by Colter, Hattie E.

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 Overend, William Heysham

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Fullerton, Georgiana

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 Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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