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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

Though some literary professionals expressed fears of ghettoization, many welcome these new entities as necessary to fight bias, foster new writers and serve readers of Jewish and Israeli books across borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

The index is supposed to keep the world free from cultural and genetic bias, but aren’t there underlying factors that we can’t escape?

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

Therapists are taught to manage these feelings, but if not trained well or sufficiently self-reflective, they can let their biases go unchecked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

“Even if they have some of these biases, they recognize that they shouldn’t be telling the experimenter about those biases,” he explains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

The kinds of biases we’re talking about here aren’t so obvious that it’s easy to identify a solution.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The experts I spoke with offered guidance on how to tell if your therapist is giving biased advice and what to do about it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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

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

And maybe I’m biased, but when my sister quoted a pop song and talked about the future, it seemed great.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky

The public at large is generally just, because too enormous to be individually canvassed; but private circles are almost universally biassed by partial or prejudiced influence.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

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

From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

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

These gentlemen know the river well enough as it now is, and are not biassed by old memories of what it once was but is no longer.

From Boating by W. B. Woodgate

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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

That meant that researchers could keep the organoids separated without biasing their experimental results.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2025

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

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

From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023

To my astonishment, she gave an immediate sign of intelligence by gliding, silently as a shadow, another step in my direction, and her biasing eyes appeared to kindle with merriment.

From The Gray Nun by Lionel Strachey

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

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

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

From Ellen Middleton—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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