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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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“We really want to bias towards disclosing, even if we think the behavior is no longer a problem in our current deployed models,” Chen said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

“Holding joy and fear at the same time is not abstract; it’s rooted in lived experience, medical bias, and real statistics.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Furthermore, even if the market turns out to have an upward bias over the next couple of months, contrarian analysis tells us nothing about equities’ longer-term potential.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

This group is known to have health volunteer bias and tends to be more physically active than the general UK population, which means the results may not apply equally to everyone.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

But nonprofit monitors come with their own biases and business ties.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

But there are also concerns about AI models making wrong decisions as a result of biases in the patient data used to train them, and incorrect medical advice being given by AI chatbots.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 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

Ultimately, a jury who brought many presumptions and biases to the trial of Marsha Colbey was selected to decide her fate.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

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

From BBC Aug. 18, 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

It’s possible that my view of her is biased.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

The History is defective in its lack of objectivity; Graetz’s judgments are sometimes biassed, and in particular he lacks sympathy with mysticism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

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

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

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

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

"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

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

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

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

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




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