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"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

“We’ve got to allow ourselves to build outwards, not just upwards, and we’ve got to end the bias against single family homes,” Hilton said at a March forum hosted by the California Assn. of Realtors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The central bank is expected to leave the official cash rate unchanged at 4.35% while retaining a bias toward further tightening, as inflation remains above target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

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

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

Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

“They have set up a system where it’s virtually impossible to sustain a biased policing complaint against an officer,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mexico’s inflation was 3.55% in mid-June, with core inflation at 4.12%, and risks to the inflation forecast remain biased to the upside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

I've stopped looking at all the discussions and arguments from my family’s biased point of view.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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 George John Romanes

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

I could not have been biassed an instant by those who know not how to appreciate her.

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

Travellers and missionaries have begun to read anthropological books, and their evidence is therefore much more likely to be biassed now by anthropological theories than it was of old.

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

What impartial judge would allow his mind to be biassed by them, altered and garbled as they must unquestionably be, even supposing that their originals once existed?

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell

"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

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

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

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

From Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton

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

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

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

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