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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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At Hawksmoor, the delicate ribbons of Cantabrian anchovy undercut her previous bias against the fishy staple.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

How does bias enter algorithms used in policing?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

"Our theory is that most of these distant sources are affected by this cosmological effect, creating an observational bias," said Rinaldi.

From Science Daily Aug. 17, 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

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

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

The dominant biases of scholarship—Western, Christian, English—could be challenged from every corner of the globe.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 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

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

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

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

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

"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

Many of these men were supporters of the National Party, but they believed that the application was biased and unfair.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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 Anthony Hope

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

Travellers in general, and missionaries in particular, are biassed in several distinct ways.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

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

"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

But he told Reuters in an interview that the economy is biasing the central bank in that direction.

From Reuters Sep. 14, 2023

By periodically biasing word selection in this way, a body of text is watermarked based on a particular distribution of tagged words.

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

What are the results of such methods of biasing the mind?

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Emma Goldman

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

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

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




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